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I've been playing armchair QB for 20 years, my QBR is 91. Nobody is seriously saying index all of the world's information in a weekend. They're saying that the
by gustavo-fring 6y ago
I've been playing armchair QB for 20 years, my QBR is 91. Nobody is seriously saying index all of the world's information in a weekend. They're saying that the tech to index the web and otherwise has increased in the last 20 years, which enables you to do more. Google isn't even a great example, considering how intensive it is at scale. There are a lot of apps, especially with user created content, that don't have that issue at all. Your argument is the other end of I can build Google in a day, it dismisses criticism by making it absurd.
- kelnos 6y agoThe "I could build it in a weekend" is certainly one extreme, but I think even people who say "I could build Google in 3 months" (or even 6 months, or a year), just don't get it. And yes, there are actually a decent amount of people who say, literally, "I could build that in a weekend". Not sure how many people say that about Google, specifically, but it comes up often enough. This post was also from 2016, and I do feel like it used to come up more often in years past than it does now.
- heavenlyblue 6y agoMost of the people I know, who say “I could build that in a weekend” mean that they could build a product that solves 90% of the problems in that problem space in a weekend. And that’s true. The other 10% is what gives you competitive advantage as a product. The truth is that _if_ the market was empty at the time; then those 90% would give you enough runway to finish the rest of the 10% with a certain high enoufh probability.
- a1369209993 6y agoI can't speak for anyone else, but as someone who has literally said that on several occasions, you've perfectly summarized ( 90% of :) ) what I generally mean.