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