Examples of 'Manual' Start Ups?
In PG's 'Do things that don't scale' essay he talks about manual start ups 'being' the software in the early stages before automating the process once you have a deep knowlege of the process and enough demand. He gives the example of stripe manually adding users to 'instant' merchant accounts. I was wondering if anyone had any other good examples to share?
Any kind of company that starts out as a managed service and then moves to a self-serve platform/SaaS (my company right now)
groupon used word press in the beginning to create it's deals pages.