> Are you planning the next Facebook where everybody can talk to anybody? Then you have some challenges you better start figuring out.
Even Facebook didn’t start trying to figure that out until they had to. Famously you needed an invite for a very long time. I’d imagine infrastructure limitations factored into this.
You’d be surprised how many successful companies push off dealing with scaling problems until they absolutely have to.
> Famously you needed an invite for a very long time.
And then it opened to needing a college/university email address. Then it opened to everyone.
I got in with my college email address, and at the time it was considered a feature, not a limitation: a combination of higher quality since people couldn't just make new spam accounts whenever, plus a bit of a status symbol compared to just being on MySpace.
Even Facebook didn’t start trying to figure that out until they had to. Famously you needed an invite for a very long time. I’d imagine infrastructure limitations factored into this.
You’d be surprised how many successful companies push off dealing with scaling problems until they absolutely have to.