I'll say that Gastown sounded absolutely crazy, but the idea of having orchestrator threads to manage your work and keep tabs on it, having validators to validate the other work etc. were generally the right shape. I think GasTown probably could have been really successful if there was a pared down version with more obvious names rather than the fun names.

I'm going to be thinking about this blog post for a while though because if you squint and tear it apart, there are probably really good generalizable pieces in here to take home for future models.