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What percentage of the internet would even understand what you just suggested, much less know how to do it? Also, you'd have to see a massive amount of value i
by peteforde 12y ago
What percentage of the internet would even understand what you just suggested, much less know how to do it?
Also, you'd have to see a massive amount of value in not signing up to Bitly to offset the hours you'd spend creating a vastly inferior hack job on your own.
- brownbat 12y ago> "[Your ideas are] vastly inferior hack jobs, 0/10 stars..." [ very roughly :) ] All I'm claiming is that bitly could have offered stats without a login system. IFTTT was just a proof of that concept, a gratuitous example, not some idealized form of stat tracking that everyone should run out and implement. You're probably right that the solution I thought of in around ten seconds sucks. I've spent more time on worse ideas. My real point is that login systems, despite their ubiquity, have their own share of downsides. Some of these downsides should be painfully evident today given the article.
- Spockulus_Rift 12y agoif butt.ly didnt require user sign ups how would they measure growth and make Borthwick rich?