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Re:UberRUSH API – Add on-demand delivery to your app or service by joshvm on Thursday June 09, 2016 @06:08PM (#11872751)
A moat is the trench around the outside of a castle that is often, but not always filled with water. It's a defensive structure because people have to cross it to get your castle in the middle. So Uber's castle (i.e. it's product) doesn't seem to be that well defended against competitors (it has a weak moat). They have the numbers and the user adoption, but fundamentally they're no different from Lyft et al.

That's my interpretation anyway! I've never heard 'weak moat' used in this context before though. Apologies if you actually know what a moat is and that all sounded rather patronising :/

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Re:UberRUSH API – Add on-demand delivery to your app or service by BWStearns on Thursday June 09, 2016 @09:59PM (#11873799)
> A moat is the trench around the outside of a castle that is often, but not always filled with s/water/alligators/.

Joking aside, that's a great way to describe the do-hard-things concept. I think the gp was more asking if that was a metaphor derived from some pg (or whoever) blog post.

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