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I'm always amazed at 37signals' ability to snipe other people in their industry, and find it more than a little repellent. Also, of COURSE products have a netw
by joshu 17y ago
I'm always amazed at 37signals' ability to snipe other people in their industry, and find it more than a little repellent.
Also, of COURSE products have a network effect! Haystack attempts to be a marketplace for design work; if they cannot draw traffic to it then it fails.
Edit: changed Highrise to Haystack
- aditya 17y agoThink you mean Haystack? Highrise is the CRM...
- tptacek 17y agoI don't think 37s lives or dies on Haystack. It's not even listed on their front page as one of their products. You picked a poor example.
- joshu 17y agoI didn't say that. I said the product dies if it cannot get traffic.
- tptacek 17y agoAnd you're right. Haystack is, in fact, a network-effect business. But Haystack is an insignificant part of 37signals business, and trying to characterize them by the way Haystack works is not a lot different then trying to characterize them by how the 37signals Job Board works.
- joshu 17y agoYou know what? I read and wrote in a hurry, and my point is nonsensical and irrelevant. Forgive me.