Well, I’m here now to urge you all to have a little bit more patience and flexibility. In other words, quit your bitchin’.

Having been involved in the web community for over half my life, I would like to think I’m “on the level” with startups, how they work and the people behind them. The web startup culture is full of passionate nerds – myself included. We decided to get into this field because we want to help innovate the Internet, connect people, share information, and overall better ourselves and others through this extremely powerful global communication tool.

We work on our startups with a passion. When our app goes down, or works slowly, we’re hurt by that, probably moreso than most of the end-users. Most startup developers I know use their apps on a daily level, and we care very much when it doesn’t behave as it should.

When an app’s performance suffers, it’s not because the developers are lazy sloths who don’t give a crap about their product. It couldn’t be more the opposite. Most of the time an app will end up suffering from it’s own popularity, especially the more home-brew apps that were started because some nerd was bored one day and had an idea. This can really catch people by surprise, as there is no way to tell how popular an app will be in the future. Even the most experienced developers can’t always keep scaling up on par with popularity growth.

So, the next time Twitter takes a dive, or Facebook’s friend feed drops a story, instead of acting like a spoiled child and writing all over the Internet how much you hate it and how much that app sucks, how about you take a moment and realize that there are real people behind the app, who are working their asses off to deliver you your content the best they can.