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roon
@tszzl
you’ll find that all software has to be rewritten if it scales 10x
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Daniel
@growing_daniel
Sure but the growth past that is incredible. I’m genuinely not sure but it’s not a forgone conclusion imo
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Daniel
@growing_daniel
Scaling way past 10x. If we look at only software companies and their revenue per user (Facebook is a good choice for me) and compare it to the amortized cost of an iPhone then it might come close to even
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roon
@tszzl
right and facebook had to re-engineer everything like 10 times it's true margins are still amazing but a startup probably shouldn't be worried about compute costs more than abt actually pushing products bc if the initial experiment works they're gonna rewrite everything anyway
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8teAPi
@8teAPi
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@tszzl
Well path dependency and hurdles are a thing right. It’s not about average cost at end state but how you get there. Lean startup methodology is to use cash to test theses and then to build based on those results rather YOLO Webvanning it.
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avi
@_avichalp_
> you’ll find that all software has to be rewritten if it scales 10x don’t think this will hold in the future. move fast a break things might become a false trade off. all the codebases that are at scale today were written using tools that weren’t meant to build web scale things
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