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Building a social network from scratch on a whiteboard
Xe Iaso's personal website.
If enough of you readers convert into Fly.io users, this justifies the hilarious amount of time and expense I put into making these conference talks shine to the bean counters. I'm Xe Iaso and today I'm going to tell you a story about how a company scaled from a humble hackathon project to a globe-spanning abomination that no human can hope to understand. When I tell this story, a lot of the irrelevant technical bits, company names, and stacks will be replaced so you don't think about them too much (Android becomes Actroid, etc.).
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