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Aren't comments like "the site is too slow" similar to "the city is too crowded"? Twitter famously had a "fail whale" but it didn't stop the company from growi
by lesuorac 9mo ago
Aren't comments like "the site is too slow" similar to "the city is too crowded"?
Twitter famously had a "fail whale" but it didn't stop the company from growing. If you have market demand (and I guess advertising) then you can get away with a sub-optimal product for a long time.
- paulnpace 9mo agoReddit is still around.
- daitangio 9mo agoI agree. Go fast with a suboptimal architecture. If success arise, throw away version 1 and rebuild from scratch. Often is more effettive.
- alexfoo 9mo ago> Twitter famously had a "fail whale" but it didn't stop the company from growing. If you have market demand (and I guess advertising) then you can get away with a sub-optimal product for a long time. Agreed, but there's still an element of survivorship bias there. Plenty of companies failed as they couldn't keep up with their scaling requirements and pushed the "getting away with a sub-optimal product" for too long a time.
- jstanley 9mo agoDo you have some good examples?
- smallnix 9mo agoThis touches the toupet fallacy: "I never saw a large company fail to grow large because of deferred scaling" Friendster might fit though: https://highscalability.com/friendster-lost-lead-because-of-a-failure-to-scale/ https://highscalability.com/friendster-lost-lead-because-of-...