They’ve been working on Fly for years now and seems like they haven’t been able to turn it into a reliable service or profitable business (making assumptions about the second part here), and the overall general sentiment seems to be to avoid it for anything but the most toy applications. I note that the team was also unable to get their recruiting business off the ground either and shuttered it.
My assumption based on the creator’s very online hacker news commentary is that they seem to be at least smart in tech. So what’s the lesson here for the rest of us who may want to start a business? Is this a “shots on goal” thing and we’re just seeing these failures more publicly than most so it biases the perception, or is there some je ne sais quoi missing that we could learn from? No offense intended by my post, but I would be very keen to learn whether there’s some X Factor missing from an otherwise ostensibly smart team’s repeated failure that we could learn from.