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>Maybe it’s that a good technical implementation is a distant second to a good product This is what computer scientists should take away from this.
by benihana 13y ago
>Maybe it’s that a good technical implementation is a distant second to a good product
This is what computer scientists should take away from this.
- brudgers 13y agoRegular internet using people are not amazed by Reddit's ranking algorithm, they just enjoy it's anti-trolling technology and critical mass.
- sytelus 13y agoNope. This is just survivor ship bias. You look at one successful product and you propose a rule that technical implementation doesn't matter. You need to look at all the dead startups which had a good product but not good implementations (ex, friendster and other FB competitors which were ahead of the game but couldn't scale). In reality, Reddit is successful by a pure chance. In its initial days it was pretty much barren wasteland for fringe people. Most people had written of it as another me-too without much of a differentiation and Digg was the place to be. Then Digg screwed up and people wanted alternative and suddenly Reddit was overnight lord of link submission evolving in to discussion forums.