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tiffanyh on Sept 17, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: How Instagram scaled to 14 million users with only...

They had the choice of using FB/Hack stack or IG/Python stack, and they choose IG/Python … which is the interesting thing.

JimDabell on Sept 17, 2023 [–]

The product is basically Instagram but with text instead of images. I would expect that would be the primary motivating factor in choosing Instagram as a starting point rather than the language.

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