> One of the most common types of advice we give at Y Combinator is to do things that don't scale
I’m not going to explain someone else’s quote, but in my perspective, in a world of limitless abundance, perhaps trying to do everything isn’t the winning strategy.
If Amazon has every product ever made available (and 75% of it is cheap drop shipped junk), there’s extra value in being the trustworthy brand that doesn’t have everything, but instead the right things.
If Twitter is full of bots and misinformation, then there’s value in being a small mastadon instance of hand curated friends where you can trust everyone.
If Google can index every website, and most of it ends up as GPT lies, then being a librarian that can vet sounded for you is immensely valuable.