Re:Ask HN: Are you put off building something because it alr...
by rahimnathwani on Monday April 29, 2019 @06:22AM
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Multiple shops like this can survive because each has limited capacity, i.e. these two go up exponentially after a certain (quite early) point:
1. Time between walking in and paying.
2. Time between paying and receiving your food.
If one of those restaurants could maintain quality, and keep the above two metrics flat whilst a scaling to 4x, then the other 3 restaurants would lose business and eventually go out of business.
Online businesses don't usually have the same limits to scale.
1. Time between walking in and paying.
2. Time between paying and receiving your food.
If one of those restaurants could maintain quality, and keep the above two metrics flat whilst a scaling to 4x, then the other 3 restaurants would lose business and eventually go out of business.
Online businesses don't usually have the same limits to scale.