[ramraj07]

I am continuing to be amazed at how much over engineering Airbnb does for ostensibly a cleaner couch surfing broker. Like they don't actually do much even for a travel site, they have so much investment and could have easily disrupted so many different travel related Fields instead they keep over engineering software. Not sure how to feel about it (since we do kinda benefit from their busywork)

[astrange]

They have similar incentives to Uber where their main goal is to get engineers to work for them by being interesting, and it doesn't actually have to be profitable. I think Uber also writes blog posts about architecture to trick competitors into thinking it can't be done by sharding each city into one box under someone's desk.