Because to 99.9% people it’s obvious and fair to assume that person asking this question knows that you need a car to wash it. No one ever could ask this question not knowing this, so it implies some trick layer.
I kind of did that back in the days when they released Worker KV, I tried to bulk upload a lot of data and it brought the whole service down, can confirm I was proud :D
Not necessarily. You get biggest insights about quality after you ship, not before. Slowing down means you ship later, which means the insights are delayed. Unless you work in a rocket industry et all, slowing down will be detrimental to the quality.
IMO this is nothing more or less than a successful marketing stunt, I suspect once it gets the reach it can get, they will replace it with something less radical.
Very cool growth hack idea and I admire the fact that they were able to pull it off, as crazy as it is.
I also run a bootstrapped company around with $10M reve as an ADHD founder. Drop an email to lucjan at surferseo.com, I’d love to chat and share experiences.
That's one of the reasons SPA aren't going anywhere: trying to handle all the user microinteractions on the server is great when you leave next to it, but it falls apart when your users are spread across the world, especially if it's not western-ish world with fast internet connections.