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Re:Ask HN: Devs who knows how to scale will have the last la... by zameermfm on Tuesday March 17, 2026 @06:28AM (#47410796)
True, but in a longer term? where the curve filters out the side projects which arent viable and others will make it to a inevitable point of scaling?
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Re:Ask HN: Devs who knows how to scale will have the last la... by andrewrozumy on Tuesday March 17, 2026 @07:12AM (#47411098)
Fair point — survivorship bias is real. The ones that make it to scaling problems are exactly the ones that didn't over-engineer early. Maybe the filter itself is the feature, not a bug.
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