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by theshrike79 94 days ago
People tend to forget that big businesses have been bootstrapped with worse stuff than some MVP vibe code website.

I have a vague memory of a hotel reservation "app" that was just putting lines in a Google Sheet where the founders grabbed the info, called the hotels themselves and reserved the room.

When they got too many requests to keep up, they slowly automated the bits they could one by one.