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Re:Programmers are distraction for your startup by Guvante on Thursday July 23, 2015 @02:37PM (#9937633)
> The author also points out several successful products that grew from decidedly low-tech, sub-optimal incarnations.

I don't know if I would call Google spreadsheets low-tech and sub-optimal. It isn't very well optimized but it hits all of the important points for a prototype, cheap, scalable and high uptime.

I totally agree though, the idea that you shouldn't get distracted by the implementation you dream of is very solid and one that is purported as important here all the time (just phrased differently).

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Re:Programmers are distraction for your startup by S4M on Thursday July 23, 2015 @03:07PM (#9937814)
I think PeterWhittaker is saying that Nomad List's version that was running on Google Spreadsheet was a suboptimal one (a prototype if you prefer). It doesn't mean that Google spreadsheets is low-tech or suboptimal (it's not).
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