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...or you could just copy what almost all big companies do. This is a dangerous strategy for a startup. A big company can afford to make a mistake and fix it e
by onion2k 4y ago
...or you could just copy what almost all big companies do.
This is a dangerous strategy for a startup. A big company can afford to make a mistake and fix it even if it costs tens of millions. If you copy their mistake before anyone has realised it's a mistake you probably won't be able to afford to fix it.
It's also very likely you'll only be able to copy the externally parts of what the big company does, without really understanding why or what's going on behind the scenes. Really, you're advocating cargo culting a solution. That's a bad idea.
- doctor_eval 4y agoRight! The decisions and complexity are all hidden. Billing has to look simple otherwise people wouldn’t pay for stuff. Take anniversary billing, it seems so simple, just store the billing day-of-month in the database and run the billing using the sql: select do_billing(customer_id) from customer where billing_day=extract(date from current_date) And this works great in December and January, but if you don’t have good financial controls you might miss the fact that you’ve dropped an entire week’s worth of billing by the end of the following year.