At i-meme, we were playing video files that had like a zero bit in the video field. We actually were transcoding uploads into video files. The whole entire thing was, it was a video site with no video. I don't know how else it's playing. And it works. So we had two more at Twitch that were really funny. A lot of the best product decisions or ones made kind of fast and kind of under duress.
Dalton Caldwell and Michael Seibel on software hacks that don't scale. Companies discussed include Google, Facebook, Twitch, and imeem. Watch the first video on doing things that don't scale here: https://youtu.be/4RMjQal_c4U
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