On: Reddit's long, rocky road to an IPO

[swatcoder]

No social media or aggregator site has ever been a developer's opportunity. If anything, they're a trap for entrpreneurial developers.

The technology to start one of the communities and get it through the first several waves of order-of-magnitude growth is trivial.

What's not trivial is drawing in enough users to seed a network effect and guiding/filtering those users towards a desired culture.

That's not developer stuff; that's marketing, partnerships, opportunity, and luck.

[ok_dad → swatcoder]

Yea and moderation is an absolute horrible minefield these days. You will always have someone complaining they’re being moderated out of the discussion, whether they are or not.