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Re:Ask HN: How bad should the code be in a startup? by u801e on Sunday June 07, 2020 @11:54AM (#23448235)
> However, startups don't fail because the codebase is ugly, or convoluted, or not following best practices.

Could they fail because they fail to meet deadlines due to convoluted or buggy code or having to invest more money and time to fix those issues and bugs introduced by them?

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Re:Ask HN: How bad should the code be in a startup? by chinathrow on Sunday June 07, 2020 @02:43PM (#23449551)
Yes, totally.

They could also fail because code/architecure is overengineered, not invented here syndrome or because of premature optimization.

In the beginning, being able to adopt and/or pivot quickly might be much more important than to have 100% test coverage, keeping up with the latest JS framework or being able to scale to 100M users.

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