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Honestly threads is so minimum. A solo dev can pull this off in half a year. Only thing complicated is scale. But meta has that in place. Threads team is a corp

Honestly threads is so minimum. A solo dev can pull this off in half a year. Only thing complicated is scale. But meta has that in place. Threads team is a corporate cushion team.

Infinitesimus 3y ago
> A solo dev can pull this off in half a year. > Only thing complicated is scale So, a solo dev cannot, in fact, pull this off.
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- Arch485 3y ago
  Serverless will handle scale, if your pockets are deep enough
- chrisco255 3y ago
  Yeah I think a talented dev using cloud services could.
- wouldbecouldbe 3y ago
  One dev could replace the threads mobile team, no doubt. I mean getting the API in order is the hard work.
yeeetz 3y ago
This is the most Hacker News comment I've read today.
- yamazakiwi 3y ago
  Reads to me like a Blind post by student.
  - wouldbecouldbe 3y ago
    No worked for corporates, startups etc. Both in small and big teams, and this is hugely unimpressive for 6 months with unlimited budget. It's not an existing project, but it's from scratch, so you dont have all the headaches or minor details.
Panini_Jones 3y ago
I think it's unimpressive engineering wise (minus all that Meta does for scale, which we already knew about). I think the business execution and marketing is what's impressive.
uw_rob 3y ago
Creating a minimal product that customers love is far harder than created a bloated app that has the kitchen sink approach. It's impressive to me that the devs were able to pick and choose the absolute minimum set of nice features and go with that. > Only thing complicated is scale. But meta has that in place. This is silly. Scale is hard. Rolling out to massive scale on the first attempt is even harder. Within the first day they got 30 million active users without any hiccups. That's not easy. Look at AAA game launches for just how hard this is to get right. One other thing here. They choose the right minimal set of features so that rolling out and scaling quickly would be successful. Again, that's impressive, because they didn't paint themselves into a corner supporting something that is difficult to scale successfully.

Honestly threads is so minimum. A solo dev can pull this off in half a year. Only thing complicated is scale. But meta has that in place. Threads team is a corporate cushion team.

Infinitesimus 3y ago

> A solo dev can pull this off in half a year. > Only thing complicated is scale So, a solo dev cannot, in fact, pull this off.

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Arch485 3y ago
Serverless will handle scale, if your pockets are deep enough
chrisco255 3y ago
Yeah I think a talented dev using cloud services could.
wouldbecouldbe 3y ago
One dev could replace the threads mobile team, no doubt. I mean getting the API in order is the hard work.

yeeetz 3y ago

This is the most Hacker News comment I've read today.

yamazakiwi 3y ago
Reads to me like a Blind post by student.
- wouldbecouldbe 3y ago
  No worked for corporates, startups etc. Both in small and big teams, and this is hugely unimpressive for 6 months with unlimited budget. It's not an existing project, but it's from scratch, so you dont have all the headaches or minor details.

Panini_Jones 3y ago

I think it's unimpressive engineering wise (minus all that Meta does for scale, which we already knew about). I think the business execution and marketing is what's impressive.

uw_rob 3y ago

Creating a minimal product that customers love is far harder than created a bloated app that has the kitchen sink approach. It's impressive to me that the devs were able to pick and choose the absolute minimum set of nice features and go with that. > Only thing complicated is scale. But meta has that in place. This is silly. Scale is hard. Rolling out to massive scale on the first attempt is even harder. Within the first day they got 30 million active users without any hiccups. That's not easy. Look at AAA game launches for just how hard this is to get right. One other thing here. They choose the right minimal set of features so that rolling out and scaling quickly would be successful. Again, that's impressive, because they didn't paint themselves into a corner supporting something that is difficult to scale successfully.