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Growing up, “Flintstones” was one of my favourite cartoons – the classic 1960’s animated prehistoric family sitcom. The show follows the Fred and Wilma Flintstone, and their loving pet dinosaur. More than anything, I was fascinated with Fred’s car – made of stone, furs, timber – started by flurry of Fred’s legs – which rolls the family to their destination. YABBA DABBA DOO! “Flintstoning” is a metaphor for this car, where the missing product functionality is replaced with manual human effort. In app economy, Flintstoned product launch lets the app developers to get the app out into the market and get the immediate feedback from the customers, to further improve the product. Flintstoning can also be a method to acquire new users initially. Once initial networks are formed, the Flintstoning techniques evolve toward the automation as the momentum builds. The goal is to manually fill in critical parts of the network, until it can stand on its own. Reddit is the perfect example of a Flintst
Growing up, “Flintstones” was one of my favourite cartoons – the classic 1960’s animated prehistoric family sitcom. The show follows the Fred and Wilma Flintstone, and their loving pet dinosaur. More than anything, I was fascinated with Fred’s car – made of stone, furs, timber – started by flurry of Fred’s legs – which rolls the family to their destination. YABBA DABBA DOO! “Flintstoning” is a metaphor for this car, where the missing product functionality is replaced with manual human effort. In app economy, Flintstoned product launch lets the app developers to get the app out into the market
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