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		powera on May 13, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Scaling Secret: Real-Time Chat If they really had 1 million concurrent active users "assuming 5% of our simultaneous actives were chatting, that we needed to be ready to support up to 50,000 users chatting at once", and were seeing growth "chat was an instant hit. It grew week-over-week to well over 50,000 concurrent connections", why did they shut down?

carrotleads on May 15, 2015 | [–]

I would say Secret did not have enough imagination to monetise those numbers or had a moral reason against that kind of money making..

hayksaakian on May 13, 2015 | [–]

the simple answer is "not enough growth"

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