early days
thinking about the early days of artists, businesses, and other ambitious endeavors.
sari and
early days
from Reddit founder:
At parties, the awkwardness of trying to tell people what we did for a living (“We, uh, build a website. You know, it’s kind of a news-type website.”) gave way to recognition (“Oh yeah, I’ve heard of that site.”), and then to profuse thanks for a great time-waster. Towards the end, actual introductions became unnecessary — peopl
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never judge a technology by its early days
“You’re probably wondering what we’re trying to do. It’s hard to say. We hope that we have something here... We’ve been working quite hard at it. We hope you can dig it.
To describe it any further would be difficult without sounding like bullshit.”
- Rolling Stone, Vol. 1, No. 1
Before they were famous
1. Here's @YouTube's first website when it was a video dating site https://t.co/Z2wnVjSiBz
nice thread on early days
2009 concerns - can YouTube make money?
Something that has been on my mind lately: things take time. https://t.co/uc2Szlyt4b
First Versions
firstversions.com
a great little repository cataloguing the first versions of the things we love and use every day.
Remembering this logged out profile redesign like it was just yesterday.
Lots of work to try to get the exact right language on top of the page to describe what Twitter is and why it is useful to sign up.
The key measure was engaged users who signed up.
13 years ago. Wow.