I'm two weeks into readings from @phil's Silicon Valley Canon book course. It's great. Here are some select takeaways.

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The story of great v0s being built in a couple days is laughably common.

- Gmail - "1 day"
- Viaweb – "a couple days"
- Ebay - "one long weekend"

And they were simple too: Paul Graham's viaweb, an e-commerce platform, launched without the ability to process payments. You couldn't process a credit card transaction until 2 years after launch.

eBay launched without the ability facilitate payments, it couldn’t even guarantee the buyers paid the sellers, just list and bid. Reviews were in a forum, separate from the bidding experience.

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I'm two weeks into readings from @phil's Silicon Valley Canon book course. It's great. Here are some select takeaways.

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The story of great v0s being built in a couple days is laughably common.

- Gmail - "1 day"
- Viaweb – "a couple days"
- Ebay - "one long weekend"

And they were simple too: Paul Graham's viaweb, an e-commerce platform, launched without the ability to process payments. You couldn't process a credit card transaction until 2 years after launch.

eBay launched without the ability facilitate payments, it couldn’t even guarantee the buyers paid the sellers, just list and bid. Reviews were in a forum, separate from the bidding experience.

https://jtgi.xyz/posts/sv-canon-i/

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Great writeup! Very motivating as someone who procrastinates seeking perfection despite my proudest ships having been strictly time boxed.

Also, sick website.

father, husband, css golfer, ux engineer, silently defining variables as /sdv sdv.wtf

ty!

website is a minimally modified astro theme: AstroPaper.

I'm a sucker for minimal astro themes, here's mine 😆

I'm a sucker for minimal astro themes, here's mine 😆

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sdvim/www/refs/heads/main/src/styles/styles.css