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Re:Why's that company so big? I could do that in a weekend by emilsedgh on Monday October 03, 2016 @10:31AM (#12627661)
Fully agreed.

However, remember l that Uber (probably) started without any of those complexities. Probably just on a weekend.

So I think the absolutely incorrect "I can build this in a weekend" could be rephrased as "An absolute MVP (Or a proof of concept) like this product could be built in a weekend".

This would make sense, right?

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Re:Why's that company so big? I could do that in a weekend by kafkaesq on Monday October 03, 2016 @01:55PM (#12629699)
"An absolute MVP (Or a proof of concept) like this product could be built in a weekend".

Maybe, theoretically, in some cases. But even so that's very different from the original "I could build that..." bloviation.

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