Ask HN: How bad should the code be in a startup?

Re:Ask HN: How bad should the code be in a startup? by JamesBarney on Sunday June 07, 2020 @12:36PM (#23448549)

I've never worked on a project o bad I could add features fix bugs to it.

And I worked on a project that literally saved the HTML on the page into a varchar, had 15,000 lines of JavaScript, and all the business logic was written in awful stored procedures.

Whatever speed quality trade-offs a good engineer is making will be worth it when a startup is still in the "I don't know if this company will exist in 6 months" phase.

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Re:Ask HN: How bad should the code be in a startup? by darepublic on Sunday June 07, 2020 @03:01PM (#23449709)

Well when you can't deliver a working product to clients because your code is so bad it can really matter. And the thing is any half decent developer is not going to code that way even within hackathon time scales

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