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Re:Ways Founders Sabotage Themselves by benatkin on Saturday June 07, 2014 @10:56AM (#7862230)
Most of these are things that some successful founders get right, particularly scaling. Scaling needn't be a huge timesink. A couple of products I just started using are Slack and Circle CI, and I think each of them built for scale early on.
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Re:Ways Founders Sabotage Themselves by raverbashing on Saturday June 07, 2014 @11:12AM (#7862261)
Yeah, to design for some initial growth is good, but you don't need to go for "Google scale" and "how are we going to do if we have 100Mi users tomorrow"

So basically don't worry about how to shard your DB to hundreds of instances and split loads across EC2s on different continents on day 1

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Re:Ways Founders Sabotage Themselves by benatkin on Saturday June 07, 2014 @04:17PM (#7862979)
When they do that, they are usually putting the cart before the horse in how they're scaling it. They have some things that would theoretically work on a massive scale but not a solid setup for a hundred thousand users.
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