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by ignoramous 415 days ago
> you can make a business with a great product

Depends on the market reach. A product struggling due to scale (a good problem to have: Like WhatsApp c. early 2010s during New Years) and a product that mostly does not do what it should (the very many dead WhatsApp clones) are very different things.

> a lesson in there about recoverable and resilient

I remember the time Skype was pre-installed on popular Androids (including the Kindle Fire) and yet couldn't compete with the likes of Viber, Kik, LINE, WeChat (which also came pre-installed). Think MSFT was that soft landing that broke that resilience.

> So you can have multi-day world-headline outages ... unicorn scale

I mean, us-east-1 is a prime example ;)