A company selling dollar for cents would have infinite MRR, doesn't make it a "business", let alone a good business.

Instead, tell us how much do you make in profit/month, not your gross MRR.

$20 x 1000 => $20,000 // not more than what they make a month even if "multiple" here means 2

Building a $10K MRR website is hard. Building multiple (assuming "multiple" here means >= 3) $10K MRR websites is extremely hard.

I don't know which investors they pitched to, but most investors seeing that number will write a 100-200K check to invest in THE PERSON pretty immediately; unless there was strong red flags in their business model (porn, drug, gambling, etc...)

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import { formatRelative } from '@appents/human-time';

const past = new Date(Date.now() - 5 * 60_000); formatRelative(past); // "5m ago"

const future = new Date(Date.now() + 3 * 3_600_000); formatRelative(future); // "In 3h"

```

And

```

import { formatRelativeLong } from '@appents/human-time';

const past = new Date(Date.now() - 5 * 60_000); formatRelativeLong(past); // "5 minutes ago"

```

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I can't think of anything other than going out and standing on a street with a placard. can we do anything better than that?

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That's indeed Meta's strength area.

With the 20/20 hindsight - I'd say the VR bet was too early for Facebook. Instead of trying to build a future tech, they should have acquired it another few years later, only after the tech has reached a more mature stage.

Meta still has a chance to catch up in the AI race given they are not trying to build afresh, but once again adapt by throwing cash at it (which has been the biggest strength of Facebook and Zuckerberg. see: instagram, whatsapp, reels, and many more...)

> Allow GitHub to use my data for AI model training

hmm, blog author doesn't know about Anthropic's Bun acquisition, and consequently shouldn't comment on "the entire AI industry"

You can't trust us with self-care. There's just too many shiny toys out there!

That water overflow step is missing / implicit. But that's an observable event.

This thread would've been way more fun with a couple of middle managers and product managers in the mix ;-)

An important nuance - most Facebook engineers don't believe that Facebook/Meta would continue to grow next year; and that disbelief had been there since as early as in 2018 (when I'd joined).

very few facebook employees use their products outside of testing, which is a big contributor to that fear - they just can't believe that there are billions of people who would continue to use apps to post what they had for lunch!

And as a result of that lack of faith, most of them believe that Meta is a bubble and can burst at any point. Consequently, everyone works for the next performance review cycle, and most are just in rush to capture as much money as they could before that bubble bursts.

2. Selling lifetime deals is the easiest way to become a slave of small paying customers without even knowing if your product is going to find PMF ever.

3. You can't just go to a subreddit and post your product. And the ones that allow anyone to post, well, you can guess the expected outcome from those.

I run a full stack digital marketing service, and here's what I'd recon:

1. If you're developing for developers, HN is the best place to post. For both to collect feedback, and to get early customers.

2. If you're building a B2C business, start with a social presence. This is a must in today's ecosystem. DON'T LAUNCH TO THE VOID.

3. If you're building a B2B business, try to get into an accelerator like YC, who can make lots of customer intros in the early days. And given how hard it's to get into an accelerator - you should try Google ads, and maybe a couple of linkedin campaigns if you've a sharp First Target Customer Profile (not vague ICP) as fallback.