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They stayed true to a single product purpose, did not add frivolous features and experiments, and didn't deal with payments/billing, eventually being "rescued"
by jakjak123 3y ago
They stayed true to a single product purpose, did not add frivolous features and experiments, and didn't deal with payments/billing, eventually being "rescued" by VC money? You seem to gloss over that AWS also helps them out a lot already here, by being the load balancer entry points and ordering VMs from a api.
- rich_sasha 3y agoThere's no glossing, I just don't understand. It's also far from my corner of technology. Still, between 3 devs and thousands, that's 3 orders of magnitude. Let's take the core team and 30x them for a broader project. Add 50 (?) for billing. Another 50 for web apps. Another 30 for general devops? That takes us to a "mere" 220 devs. Then I read that Uber had around 2,000 SEs in 2020, and Airbnb at some point was 1,200. I don't know how to grok that. You mention AWS, my impression was that even many very large orgs run their their hardware in the cloud (surely not all but still).
- alphabettsy 3y agoThere seems to be a pretty big difference in business logic and requirements between a photo sharing app and one that moves or houses people. Dealing with payments globally to hosts/drivers and specifically compliance is complex in itself.