This is more of a problem in corporate IT than in the startup world. I have seen many projects in corporate IT that go way overboard to ensure their apps will s

This is more of a problem in corporate IT than in the startup world. I have seen many projects in corporate IT that go way overboard to ensure their apps will scale. But why? I am working on a major app right now that will have 300 total users. Ever. And yet the team wants to make the system scale to handle tens of thousands. Why? The key is to know your audience. Is it truly realistic that the entire internet will become users? Or is it a smaller group? Scale accordingly.