Do Things That Don't Scale
Discover new unscalable ways to grow your startup
In plain words
Do Things That Don't Scale is a crowdsourced database of unscalable growth tactics used by startup founders. It collects real stories from entrepreneurs about unconventional methods they employed to grow their businesses, gathered from interviews, podcasts, and written accounts. The platform serves as a central repository for these growth hacking strategies, allowing founders and entrepreneurs to discover and learn from practical, non-traditional approaches that other builders have successfully used.
written from the facts on this page · September 2026
From the sources
We occasionally hear about the unscalable things founders did via interviews, podcasts and Substack articles. There’s no single home for these hacks however, so I decided to build a crowdsourced database with real stories, from real people.
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