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by tluyben2 1596 days ago
Those remarks are always made at launch, not later on. Dropbox and twitter, both of which people said this about, were rather trivial at launch especially with modern tooling. They also, and especially twitter, had growing pains. Twitter defo prioritised move fast and break things.

Obviously copying decades of improvements and scaling lessons you cannot copy unless someone made a product of those parts and you can use those.