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What's wrong with that? $15 a month might be all it takes to become "ramen profitable".

• mseebach 17y ago
  What's wrong with that is that he's letting very simple technological concerns get in the way of him releasing his product. It's basically an example of very premature optimization.
  • reedlaw 17y ago
    I wouldn't say he's "optimizing" if he chooses to use a cheap host and subdomain. He's boostrapping an agile product. He can always get a better host and full domain name in subsequent iterations.
    • mseebach 17y ago
      Yeah, and that's laudable. It just reads like he assumes a constraint and starts worrying rather than understanding the constraint his decision imposes. Also, I'm sure, if he shops around, he can find a cheap shared host that'll host multiple domains for him. This further implies that he's in constraints-mode rather than solutions-mode. The optimization comparison is meant in the sense that it's like he's focusing on whether the compiler correctly unrolls this or that loop, rather than focusing on getting his product out of the door where it can start creating some value for customers.