I've been waiting for two weeks, and I've finally broken 50,000. I don't know if I even want to use this app anymore.
Their rationale makes sense - it is better to make people wait than everyone have a crappy experience, but given how easy infrastructure is to come by these days and how quickly one can provision it, I'm worried they're taking too long and people will forget or uninstall the app. That said, when it finally lets me in, this could change my life and I may not even know it. But at this rate, I definitely won't.
It's sort of a strange thing. An app like this should have the easiest horizontally scalable backend ever. Each user has no overlap whatsoever with other users (unlike more complex sharded instances like ebay, facebook, and every other social app).
So it must be more of a business decision about whether it's worth the cost of firing up all those new servers for a currently free app.
Makes me think they should have just charged for it out of the gate, then they'd have the financial incentive to actually fire up all those servers. Or a "subscribe now" to get to the front of the line.
It's a pretty good app, but I had the advantage of getting in within the first couple days. Admittedly, if I had to wait more than a week or two, I would've deleted it by now. It has some snazzy UI tricks and adds some smart task-based stuff to your email, but nothing life-changing. I haven't experienced any slowdown yet – I'd love to see them double, even triple the acceptance rate. I would be fine with taking a speed hit if it meant the massive queue started to speed up.
It took me a bit to get used to it, but I have loved it. My inbox is constantly clean, and I am better at following up on things in it that I had as reminders.
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I've been waiting for two weeks, and I've finally broken 50,000. I don't know if I even want to use this app anymore.
Their rationale makes sense - it is better to make people wait than everyone have a crappy experience, but given how easy infrastructure is to come by these days and how quickly one can provision it, I'm worried they're taking too long and people will forget or uninstall the app. That said, when it finally lets me in, this could change my life and I may not even know it. But at this rate, I definitely won't.
It's sort of a strange thing. An app like this should have the easiest horizontally scalable backend ever. Each user has no overlap whatsoever with other users (unlike more complex sharded instances like ebay, facebook, and every other social app).
So it must be more of a business decision about whether it's worth the cost of firing up all those new servers for a currently free app.
Makes me think they should have just charged for it out of the gate, then they'd have the financial incentive to actually fire up all those servers. Or a "subscribe now" to get to the front of the line.
It might not be quite that simple. There could be limitations on whatever database they are using and the way they set it up as well.
It's a pretty good app, but I had the advantage of getting in within the first couple days. Admittedly, if I had to wait more than a week or two, I would've deleted it by now. It has some snazzy UI tricks and adds some smart task-based stuff to your email, but nothing life-changing. I haven't experienced any slowdown yet – I'd love to see them double, even triple the acceptance rate. I would be fine with taking a speed hit if it meant the massive queue started to speed up.
It took me a bit to get used to it, but I have loved it. My inbox is constantly clean, and I am better at following up on things in it that I had as reminders.
I'm around 20k. It's made me really excited to use the app. Just a couple days longer