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by ugjka 1108 days ago
If you tasked a team to build a reddit clone and nothing else the only problem would be scaling and paying an aws bill (for decades at loss)
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wvenable 1108 days ago
Having scaling problems and a big AWS bill is the consequences of success, though. I'm pretty sure the team would consider that a win.
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ugjka 1108 days ago
That's where Reddit is at right now, they make no profit. You think u/spez would piss off the entire site for no reason? They desperately need profit
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wvenable 1108 days ago
They also went from 700 employees to 2000 employees because they took VC money and have to grow grow grow. I'm sure one could make a sustainable business out of Reddit but nobody wants just a sustainable business.
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MisterBastahrd 1105 days ago
Reddit makes no profit because it needs about 100 devs and support staff if we're being generous and they've hired over a thousand.
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