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> I guess that's a function of how relatively few HNers may be Pinterest users? I actually use Pinterest. It's just how often does the opportunity to mention P

> I guess that's a function of how relatively few HNers may be Pinterest users? I actually use Pinterest. It's just how often does the opportunity to mention Pinterest comes up? My pins are fashion (boots, athletic wares, etc..) and haircuts.

mywittyname 7y ago
Pinterest probably has an amazing tech stack. I am surprised that it doesn't get more love around here.
- jfk13 7y ago
  Personally, I hate Pinterest with a passion, mainly because of how it pollutes image searches with useless, context-less results.
  - ghaff 7y ago
    I have to do -site searches for certain types of image searches. OTOH that does fix this issue pretty easily.
- nichochar 7y ago
  Pinterest founders are business+design. Therefore the company is not engineering first, it's product and design first. This is why it's not particularly loved on HN, and this is also why the tech stack is nothing special (it's not bad, it's just not special). What is special is the unbelievable product market fit. Engaged Pinterest users 1) spend a shitton of time on the app (hours a day) and 2) interact very positively with ads (this is VERY purposeful and part of the product first company style). I think their recipe makes for a great company, but it's not the most fun for engineers to work on (those things don't always if ever correlate).
- AlchemistCamp 7y ago
  They were very early adopters of Elixir!
  - anthony_doan 7y ago
    They do? They should actually talk about it on their tech blog (https://medium.com/@Pinterest_Engineering https://medium.com/@Pinterest_Engineering). I couldn't find it other then third party post talking about them using it (https://prograils.com/posts/why-discord-pinterest-moz-bleacher-report-use-elixir-case-studies https://prograils.com/posts/why-discord-pinterest-moz-bleach...). Even their github https://github.com/pinterest https://github.com/pinterest, elixir isn't even in their top programming languages. It could be the secret sauce language kind of deal. Or they've moved away from it. It is a pleasure to see you outside of elixirforum.
    - AlchemistCamp 7y ago
      Thanks! I'm glad I could get the same handle. AFAIK, Pinterest rewrote the logic of their notification system into Elixir and also used it to rebuild their rate limiter. This is the main piece I've seen open sourced: https://github.com/pinterest/elixir-thrift https://github.com/pinterest/elixir-thrift

mywittyname 7y ago

Pinterest probably has an amazing tech stack. I am surprised that it doesn't get more love around here.

jfk13 7y ago
Personally, I hate Pinterest with a passion, mainly because of how it pollutes image searches with useless, context-less results.
- ghaff 7y ago
  I have to do -site searches for certain types of image searches. OTOH that does fix this issue pretty easily.
nichochar 7y ago
Pinterest founders are business+design. Therefore the company is not engineering first, it's product and design first. This is why it's not particularly loved on HN, and this is also why the tech stack is nothing special (it's not bad, it's just not special). What is special is the unbelievable product market fit. Engaged Pinterest users 1) spend a shitton of time on the app (hours a day) and 2) interact very positively with ads (this is VERY purposeful and part of the product first company style). I think their recipe makes for a great company, but it's not the most fun for engineers to work on (those things don't always if ever correlate).
AlchemistCamp 7y ago
They were very early adopters of Elixir!
- anthony_doan 7y ago
  They do? They should actually talk about it on their tech blog (https://medium.com/@Pinterest_Engineering https://medium.com/@Pinterest_Engineering). I couldn't find it other then third party post talking about them using it (https://prograils.com/posts/why-discord-pinterest-moz-bleacher-report-use-elixir-case-studies https://prograils.com/posts/why-discord-pinterest-moz-bleach...). Even their github https://github.com/pinterest https://github.com/pinterest, elixir isn't even in their top programming languages. It could be the secret sauce language kind of deal. Or they've moved away from it. It is a pleasure to see you outside of elixirforum.
  - AlchemistCamp 7y ago
    Thanks! I'm glad I could get the same handle. AFAIK, Pinterest rewrote the logic of their notification system into Elixir and also used it to rebuild their rate limiter. This is the main piece I've seen open sourced: https://github.com/pinterest/elixir-thrift https://github.com/pinterest/elixir-thrift