I've never seen a Blade rack in the flesh
I cut my teeth on a VPS and Ruby
And I'm not proud of my address
IP v4, no traceroute envy
But every post's like:
Node scripts
Varnish
GitHub integration
Mongo
Redis
Graceful degradation
We don't care; we're running Facebook in our dreams
But every blog's like:
Seed round
B round
Term sheets and some leeway
YC
Creamery
Tesla down the freeway
We don't know; we don't need to IPO
And we'll never be Google (Google)
It don't run in our blood
That kind of game just ain't for us
Writing a different kind of Buzz
Let me quote Paul Graham (Graham)
Pretty much endlessly
And baby I'll ship, I'll ship, I'll ship, I'll ship
Integrate continuously
My friends and I we've cracked on code
We hit our user goals using growth hacks
And everyone who sees us knows
That we're fine with this; spam's just hustling
And every post's like ...
And we'll never be Google ...
Big-O (ohhh)
Got more traction than we ever dreamed
And our site is being creamed
Big-O (ohhh)
We're eating our ramen bowls
Hitting all our metric goals
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