| I feel this. Tried launching something in 2022. Night of the launch, my whole team pulls an all nighter. Some launches suddenly pull ahead with 20 upvotes right out of the gate. We have a handful. I see the same LinkedIn messages this author cites, but I ignore them. Why cheat? Once someone secure a top spot, all the traffic goes to those apps, and they stay ahead to matter what. Accumulative advantage. 1 hour later, we get hit with a cyberattack. We don’t have rate limiters on sending invites from validated users, and someone overwhelms that system. All the queues are flooded and grind to a halt. We work furiously to resolve it. It takes hours to get everything flushed and healthy again. We ended in 9th place or something. Never again. I realized it’s just pay to play. |