Neil Patel

And at the time, we felt like as long as we did these three things, we would have it done within a certain number of months, basically. And we were trying to go for the ingest will be brand new and we'll do it like this. Storage will only use object storage. Queries will only use serverless.

And exactly how you'd expect engineers to behave, we were like, and we'll get it done within six months, right? Or eight months or whatever it was. The reality, though, was that for the API and the front-end side, we just ate the tech debt and we just repurposed it to make it work in that timeframe. What happened was essentially we had made a data store.

And exactly how you'd expect engineers to behave, we were like, and we'll get it done within six months, right? Or eight months or whatever it was. The reality, though, was that for the API and the front-end side, we just ate the tech debt and we just repurposed it to make it work in that timeframe. What happened was essentially we had made a data store.

And exactly how you'd expect engineers to behave, we were like, and we'll get it done within six months, right? Or eight months or whatever it was. The reality, though, was that for the API and the front-end side, we just ate the tech debt and we just repurposed it to make it work in that timeframe. What happened was essentially we had made a data store.

And so there's endless things on the other side of you making that viable, as well as we needed our AWS. There were problems like the bandwidth between S3 and Lambda. We were getting caught on that constantly. So we were hitting the limits there. So you could get all the data in, get it into S3, but we couldn't query it fast enough because we just basically saturate everything.

And so there's endless things on the other side of you making that viable, as well as we needed our AWS. There were problems like the bandwidth between S3 and Lambda. We were getting caught on that constantly. So we were hitting the limits there. So you could get all the data in, get it into S3, but we couldn't query it fast enough because we just basically saturate everything.

And so there's endless things on the other side of you making that viable, as well as we needed our AWS. There were problems like the bandwidth between S3 and Lambda. We were getting caught on that constantly. So we were hitting the limits there. So you could get all the data in, get it into S3, but we couldn't query it fast enough because we just basically saturate everything.

And if we kept ending lambdas, obviously that has an issue around cost. And so we had all these issues. And so just even we ate the debt on one side. And then on the other side, if you went back, you'd be like, we didn't need to. We had the time to redo it from scratch, essentially, just because the data store was going to take longer than we thought.

And if we kept ending lambdas, obviously that has an issue around cost. And so we had all these issues. And so just even we ate the debt on one side. And then on the other side, if you went back, you'd be like, we didn't need to. We had the time to redo it from scratch, essentially, just because the data store was going to take longer than we thought.

And if we kept ending lambdas, obviously that has an issue around cost. And so we had all these issues. And so just even we ate the debt on one side. And then on the other side, if you went back, you'd be like, we didn't need to. We had the time to redo it from scratch, essentially, just because the data store was going to take longer than we thought.

The feeling we had when we released the beta cloud, our MVP, was we had felt we had now been much later than we had thought about bringing the thing we were building to market. It doesn't matter which thing we were building, but since the inception of the company to bringing it to market, it had elongated because we decided to pivot. And we were just desperate.

The feeling we had when we released the beta cloud, our MVP, was we had felt we had now been much later than we had thought about bringing the thing we were building to market. It doesn't matter which thing we were building, but since the inception of the company to bringing it to market, it had elongated because we decided to pivot. And we were just desperate.

The feeling we had when we released the beta cloud, our MVP, was we had felt we had now been much later than we had thought about bringing the thing we were building to market. It doesn't matter which thing we were building, but since the inception of the company to bringing it to market, it had elongated because we decided to pivot. And we were just desperate.

Like we had this massive list of things we could have done, but we were so desperate to just put it into people's hands. In a way, we pushed off anything that would have made like complete sense for us to be like, okay, of course you build this next or that next or whatever.

Like we had this massive list of things we could have done, but we were so desperate to just put it into people's hands. In a way, we pushed off anything that would have made like complete sense for us to be like, okay, of course you build this next or that next or whatever.

Like we had this massive list of things we could have done, but we were so desperate to just put it into people's hands. In a way, we pushed off anything that would have made like complete sense for us to be like, okay, of course you build this next or that next or whatever.

And instead we worked on just talking to as many people as possible, getting as many people to use it, getting that feedback and just working through feedback. And honestly, I'd say we probably did that for a couple of quarters where we didn't really work as much towards these are like the longer term goals. We worked more towards this thing is so new in so many places.

And instead we worked on just talking to as many people as possible, getting as many people to use it, getting that feedback and just working through feedback. And honestly, I'd say we probably did that for a couple of quarters where we didn't really work as much towards these are like the longer term goals. We worked more towards this thing is so new in so many places.

And instead we worked on just talking to as many people as possible, getting as many people to use it, getting that feedback and just working through feedback. And honestly, I'd say we probably did that for a couple of quarters where we didn't really work as much towards these are like the longer term goals. We worked more towards this thing is so new in so many places.

The last thing we wanted to do was continue to run without actually getting a feeling of what's happening around us. We put ourselves in the hands of our first users and then the growing user base, and we've focused on just making them happy. What happened from that was essentially we grew our user base, which is great.