With a fully remote team of just 20 employees, Bluesky has surpassed 20 million users in its first year since opening to the public and is stealing thunder from rivals hundreds of times its size.
At a time when conventional wisdom among bosses is that workers must be in-person to be productive.
At a time when conventional wisdom among bosses is that workers must be in-person to be productive.
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CDC had a press conference during which they officially announced their 6600 system. I understand that in the laboratory developing this system there are only 34 people, “including the janitor.” Of these, 14 are engineers and 4 are programmers ...
Thank you team Bluesky!
For social apps, it's common to have small teams and big user bases as you grow like lightning if you get lucky.
The real problem is making it last.
Bluesky has crafts and gardens ofcourse it surpasses everything else 🙄
Better put, we work from our laptops, its none of my business if anyone is at home or where they’re working from.
It’s logical and affords lower overhead, which is passed along to the client. Here it shows in the lack of intrusive advertising..
Success is determined by how hard you work and how often you want to do it
Home is our safe haven
A place where are minds flourish
Mankind's greatest achievements have come from people who worked their homes
Offices stifle free thought
This is enterprise software on every continent except Antarctica.
Also, 20 employees vs the tens of thousands yet achieving similar scaling... Speaks volumes about twitland's engineering "competence"
https://youtu.be/4ec_yZCWOCY?si=Lrt8dCrWBo-7ZkJM
And I've teamed with co-workers at locales worldwide.
I tell people the advantage is that the commute is a breeze.
The downside is You. Never. Leave. Work.
By 2025 this site will have 100M
Employee count, probably due to knowledge, flat org, and well executed plan.
Bluesky is what people want online, not bloated, hellware, forced ad & propaganda crap we've seen from other socials.
Time of online social migration to something more human.
“People that don’t like opinions that’s don’t reflect their own”
I had a friend who worked at a company that did a Pilot Study of letting a group of IT guys work remotely. On every metric the dept ran on, they exceeded working in office. Every single one.
Mgmnt killed it. It just didn't make the Director feel he was 'The Boss' enough.
I was lucky: I retired rather than go back to the office.
Once you need to make money you need to hire more people to handle all of that 🙄
This is literally the story of every vc funded startup. Facebook had 7-15 employees for the first few years.
The main point is:
BLUESKY IS RUN BY A WOMAN!!!!!
When I WFH, I'm actually more productive bc I'm more comfortable and don't lose time to commute & office-ready hair & makeup.
I wish more businesses and orgs would let people decide what format works best for them - full remote, hybrid, or non-site.
and real estate.
They're the coolest.
Just 20 employees? That gives me some old school startup vibes, and I love it.
Excellence, tragically, does not truly scale.
Yet they find work & home in the same sentence equally unlikely.
Shifts happening but the structures of work are too rigid to cope with the disruption.
'People are our biggest asset' the business plan homily, that's simply word salad.
Bluesky skunkworks, works.
Don't think we can applaud the other argument and still blame Musk for cutting staff.
Q: How many employees does it take to run Twitter?
A: 20 to keep the site functional and 2780 to make it look like Elon has friends.
However the most labor intensive aspect of social media is user validation and moderation.
These scale ungracefully. When you are first starting out you can almost ignore them. As the site grows, moderation increasingly eats all your time /1
Starting from scratch is something existing companies can rarely do
*shudder*
A company that small and private should also have minimal red tape.
User growth has a snowball effect though… will remain to be seen how well Bluesky can keep scaling.
20% year on year growth over last 5 years.
Size (staff) increasing all the time.
We're regarded as leaders in our field.
Never had an office at all apparently.
Bravo!
I'm pretty sure Elmo needed a larger team to destroy Twitter...
There is not a single reason outside of critical infrastructure and security to keep the hybrid or in office model.
It just leads to higher housing prices and commuting times.
In contrast, the team Trump is building consists of criminals, rapists, incompetent destructive power hungry thugs….So we ask “What is the objective? Who will this benefit?”
Answer: Putin, the rich, NOT 99.9999% of US people
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Why the heck waste precious time & resources commuting when you can be a whole lotta productive WFH!!! 😇
You know, sociopaths, like Trump and Musk
That is bosses being stupid little dickheads.
They think if the worker is sitting at their desk they are working but if they are sitting at home they aren't.
If they manage the work they know if the employee is getting work done - doesn't matter where they are.
Wish college management programs taught that.
Moderation has been 👍. Easy peasy to block the bots and trolls that muskrat sent.
It's actually working much better than I thought it would considering the exponential growth.
Feels great to be here and leave the Xcrement site in the rear view mirror.
Blocking simply ignores content that can't be allowed under any circumstances, which will come in shocking amounts
No amount of money can replace common sense.
Managers that use that argument are either
willfully ignorant
unable to manage
hoping that they can mask a reduction of staff by disappointing employees with return-to-office demands.