In building a product, I’ve always thought that “consider doing some things that don’t scale” is pretty good advice: manually add content, go visit your early users in person, review all the contributions by hand, etc. Figuring out how to eliminate the unscalable parts as you grow is much easier than trying to design the scalable solution from scratch.
“Does Stripe have product managers or do engineers manage the products themselves?” by Patrick Collison
Figuring out how to scale takes time. On the flip side, in the incessant culture of growth, rushing to achieve scale can mean you miss the subtleties and tiny moments that can have an outsized impact on success. There is value in sometimes doing things the slow and unscalable way.
Source: quora.com
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