Tell me you’ve never supported a large userbase without telling me you’ve never supported a large userbase.
What’s the plan for supporting the 50,000 people a day who lost their random string? What’s the plan for supporting the other 50,000 a day who pasted it into a random website? Europe has a billion people.
Heh... I actually did support a rather large userbase pretty much on my own for 20 years, until I lost that business to Facebook. This can be traced in my HN history even.
Anyway, the evil is in the details, and the details matter. But it's a topic for a blogpost, not a HN comment.