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		tomerbd on July 1, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Scott's Cheap Flights: Growing a small side projec... what do you mean i don't understand the horizontal / vertial

DontGiveTwoFlux on July 2, 2017 [–]

Vertical - the actual thing that provides customer value.

Horizontal - scaling up your application to lots of customers.

Scaling software is easy, there's no factory to buy more equipment for. Creating business value is much harder.

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