@@ -17,4 +17,4 @@ Why limit your userbase like this? Don't you want as many people using your product as possible? In each example there is a limited resource. Carl can only cook so much and Maciej & Shaun can only provide so much support. Though it may sound counter intuitive to turn away revenue, if you have some sort of limit, you have to adjust your business to match this limit. - Don't just have a beta. Betas are bullshit. Make users [wait a week](http://www.metafilter.com/newuser.mefi), [manually review their application](http://rubyforge.org) or make them [order over the phone](http://www.waxseals.com.au/ordering.htm). Placing a roadblock will deter all but the customers you _want_ to have. When Google takes a website and makes it run for ten billion users they are playing catch up to public demand. They are subject to the masses and are on the back foot, forced to spend millions and hire to satisfy demand. Only once you have an amazing product are these issues you want to tackle, and you want to tackle them in your own time. Carl Kenzler is inspiring because he is only a slave to his own standards. + Don't just have a beta. Betas are bullshit. Make users [wait a week](http://www.metafilter.com/newuser.mefi), [manually review their application](http://rubyforge.org) or make them [order over the phone](http://www.waxseals.com.au/ordering.htm). Placing a roadblock will deter all but the customers you _want_ to have. When Google takes a website and makes it run for ten billion users they are playing catch up to public demand. They are subject to the masses and are on the back foot, forced to spend millions and hire to satisfy demand. Carl Kenzler is inspiring because he is only a slave to his own standards. articles/quelling-juggernauts.haml b8cc77fbd21c323f31c1078e37c054edf0b37bfd Chris Lloyd christopher.lloyd@gmail.com http://github.com/chrislloyd/poacher/commit/2ee04b09637b6234159ccc50f350e83a1b8c7f7c 2ee04b09637b6234159ccc50f350e83a1b8c7f7c 2009-11-04T15:33:36-08:00 2009-11-04T15:33:36-08:00 Remove weird sentence. e38c94b49d0e0a9ef6f65f5eaf48c146a5942241 Chris Lloyd christopher.lloyd@gmail.com