This might have problems scaling up. Might I suggest asking customers for the email addresses of three friends, so that all three have to send the email in order for you to quit? There are all sorts of problems with that, but they’re all greatly mitigated by picking the right three friends.
That is damn brilliant. Much more scalable (and I think just much more elegant) than the craziness we came up with.
That said, I think we’ll leave this on the back burner until it’s an issue. (We’re always reminding ourselves to only work on things that are solving problems right now, not problems we’re going to have—when we scale up, when someone wants to do such-and-such.) To quote Patrick McKenzie: “A startup’s most likely problem with scaling is that it will have no scaling problems.”
This might have problems scaling up. Might I suggest asking customers for the email addresses of three friends, so that all three have to send the email in order for you to quit? There are all sorts of problems with that, but they’re all greatly mitigated by picking the right three friends.
That is damn brilliant. Much more scalable (and I think just much more elegant) than the craziness we came up with.
That said, I think we’ll leave this on the back burner until it’s an issue. (We’re always reminding ourselves to only work on things that are solving problems right now, not problems we’re going to have—when we scale up, when someone wants to do such-and-such.) To quote Patrick McKenzie: “A startup’s most likely problem with scaling is that it will have no scaling problems.”