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by mixmax 5894 days ago
Check out Strategy Letter II: Chicken and Egg Problems by Joel Spolsky. It has some good thoughts on the problem.

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000054.html

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wow thanks. I'm reading it now.

edit: i've done reading it and it seems that the solution is to provide some sort of backward compatibility so you would have a user base or (software base) on day 1. so essentially if i want to start a date site, i should flirt with random girls on the street on behalf on requests from the internet as a backward compatibility?