…'s case they noticed people weren't booking rooms because the pictures sucked. So they flew to New York and shot some beautiful images. This is a very non-scalable and non-technical solution. Yet it was the turning point for Airbnb and sparked their climb out of the "trough of sorrow." Previously they had been limited by the Silicon Valley idea that every feature had to be scalable. Not every solution can be found behind a computer screen.
For the full story please read …
- Topics: Airbnb
- Lessons Learned: The Lean Startup SXSW 2013
- ZURB: Airbnb's Joe Gebbia: Do Things That Don't Scale
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- Heroku: Waza 2013 - Keynote Speakers
- Phusion Corporate Blog: Phusion Passenger 4.0.2 released
…fully-featured application server. It is very fast, stable and robust and thus used by the likes of New York Times, AirBnB, Symantec, Pixar, etc. It comes with many features that makes your life easier and your application perform better.
We are releasing an emergency release in response to a recently discovered remote code execution vulnerability in Nginx ( CVE-2013-2028 ). Many versions of Nginx 1.3, as well as Nginx 1.4.0, are affected. Phusion Passenger 4.0.2 installs…
- Patrick Lenz: Phusion Passenger Lite
- Codeshooter's Weblog: Setting a far future expires header for your Rails app static assets in your Nginx server
- Brightbox Ruby Blog: NGINX Passenger 3 Ubuntu packages
- Trevor Turk: Weekly Digest, 10-12-09
- Kalzumeus Software: How To Use SSL To Secure Your Rails App Against FireSheep And Other Evils
- Freelancing Gods: script/nginx
…fully-featured application server. It is very fast, stable and robust and thus used by the likes of New York Times, AirBnB, Symantec, Pixar, etc. It comes with many features that makes your life easier and your application perform better.
After a period of being in beta, we're proud to announce the first stable release of the Phusion Passenger 4 series. The 4.x series is a huge improvement over the 3.x series: during the development of 4.0, we've introduced a myriad …
- Labnotes: Rounded Corners 376 - Instant bug fix
- Trevor Turk: Weekly Digest, 10-12-09
- Codeshooter's Weblog: Setting a far future expires header for your Rails app static assets in your Nginx server
- Hackido: Install Ruby on Rails on Ubuntu Karmic Koala 9.10
- Patrick Lenz: Phusion Passenger Lite
- Brightbox Ruby Blog: NGINX Passenger 3 Ubuntu packages