Some ISPs wanted to do this free peering relationship where basically you can send them traffic for free, they can send you traffic for free. We were spending so much money sending video to this country and we're generating no revenue from it. So what we did is that after 10 minutes of people watching free, free live video, we just put up a big thing that blocked the video. That worked. And then the second one was translation. It would just like serve up every string in English. And it was like, serve to anyone who came to the site who wasn't from an English speaking country. But we basically got translation for a whole product for free.
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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