This was one of the most downloaded apps from all time. Went from zero to gazillions of requests in a single day. Nobody could have planned this. Com'on these guys are great.
Yeah the negativity here is overwhelming. Which, isn't surprising, HN's comment section isn't the cheeriest place on the internet. But seriously, for a tech news aggregator you'd think more of the users would appreciate at least the difficulty of scaling an app from nothing to THE most popular app ever, in a matter of days. Yeah they had/still have issues that they could've mentioned in the article, but it doesn't take away from what they DID do.
Great point. They created an MVP, it worked, and then put resources in when and where the needs declared themselves (stability, scaling...).
Yeah, i never complained about the servers because of that, but the app was also really buggy from the beginning.