Too Long; Didn't Read
A pandemic hit us hard a few years back. At that time, every <a href="https://hackernoon.com/tagged/startup" target="_blank">startup</a> was building the Airbnb for this or the Uber of that. The <a href="https://hackernoon.com/tagged/technology" target="_blank">technology</a> industry was convinced that startups could only be worthwhile if they looked like a Platform; if they aspired to be the next Facebook.