Or at least it's not engaging with the obvious counterargument at all - that: "You may not need the scale now, but you may need it later". For a startup being a unicorn with a bajillion users is the only outcome that actually counts as success. It's the outcome they sell to their investors.
So sure, you can make a unscalable solution that works for the current moment. Most likely you wont need more. But that's only true b/c most startups don't end up unicorns. Most likely is you burn through their VC funding and fold
Okay stack overflow allegedly runs on a toaster, but most products don't fit that mold - and now that they're tied to their toaster it probably severely constrains what SO can do it terms of evolving their service
Or at least it's not engaging with the obvious counterargument at all - that: "You may not need the scale now, but you may need it later". For a startup being a unicorn with a bajillion users is the only outcome that actually counts as success. It's the outcome they sell to their investors.
So sure, you can make a unscalable solution that works for the current moment. Most likely you wont need more. But that's only true b/c most startups don't end up unicorns. Most likely is you burn through their VC funding and fold
Okay stack overflow allegedly runs on a toaster, but most products don't fit that mold - and now that they're tied to their toaster it probably severely constrains what SO can do it terms of evolving their service