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Comment by zahlman | Hacker News Reader

> There’s an old startup mantra — probably from the early Airbnb or Y Combinator days — that goes: “Do things that don’t scale.”

Yes, it was posted again just the other day: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44913359

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Haha funny timing! I wrote this post last weekend and haven’t checked HN much this week

I agree it would be nice to put the source of the quote in your own post. It's so easy to Google before quoting.

On another note: did you just tell a bunch of strangers on the internet how to snail-mail arbitrary photos to your mom? Or does that email thing only activate if the email comes from your own address? (Guess you'll find out! :))

The postcard app is gated by a verification queue. FWIW, so far no one has tried to sign up. Also there’s an address book so it’s not just for mom :-)

It's definitely the first result on Google and sort of ruins any credibility of the article.

Anyone who was part of the HN/YCombinator scene at the time PG wrote that piece (and many years later) would know what the title alludes to. Why would it ruin this article's credibility?

Because when you quote someone, you should credit them. It's not believable that they don't know the source of the quote because it's trivial to find.

It would be one thing if the post was arguing for or against the substance of that essay, but it's really not -- it's about a different thing you can do, in a different context.

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