> It became a "top-of-the-funnel" lead generation tool for other products
If I recall correctly, the original pitch deck for Mint stated that this was the plan. Weird to say it morphed into something that was just the original vision.
No. I think when you are big enough, a feature with even 1% usage is big enough to dedicate resources to. Slack made $168M last quarter. 1% of that deserves at least 1 eng and 1 QA full time.
The site I work on has hundreds of millions of visitors a month. A double digit percentage of our overall traffic uses our desktop site on mobile. It’s not the same use case as Slack but I’d bet it’s bigger than you think.
Also, bug burden shouldn’t be an excuse if your market cap exceeds $10bn.
I believe this is where a lot of the confusion comes from. If you use Coinbase to directly trade crypto (e.g. BTC for ETH) this is a taxable event on your BTC even though you never touch fiat in the process.
AWS-cli only really got robust S3 support in the last 18 months or so. For a long time it couldn't handle multipart uploads and didn't support a bunch of corner cases (versioning, glacier, cross-account, etc)