Dear lazyweb, Reddit in its early days famously had fake users posting content to make it seem like there was more activity than there really was - as a means of solving the chicken and egg problem in building a network Know if any other examples like this?
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Replying to @andrewchen
I've seen a number of marketplaces start up with "Aggregate via screenscraping / etc supply elsewhere, list it on marketplace, fulfill manually via ops teams / founders." e.g. If you're building "University books for the UK", ~every book with an ISBN is available *somewhere.*
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Replying to @patio11 @andrewchen
So this ends up synthetically combining two things that are real and one which is more debatable into an offering which is real:
* Your university really did assign X title.
* You really can purchase it for $Y.
* You might assume we have it in inventory, but not necessarily true
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