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

Re:Ask HN: How bad should the code be in a startup? by redis_mlc on Monday June 08, 2020 @12:59AM (#23453701)

1) One SF wifi mgmt. software startup had a 50,000 LOC product with 250,000 lines of test code.

They seemed content, but obviously a lot of resources went into tests.

2) Many late startups in SF spent a lot of time and effort on perfecting CI/CD software (multiple years), or struggling with k8s in the early days (1 year to finish one service.)

3) Often post-founder programmers these days have a lot of process to overcome before shipping. I know one startup that hired dozens of programmers, but the founder (alone) still writes most of the code.

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Re:Ask HN: How bad should the code be in a startup? by quantified on Monday June 08, 2020 @08:38PM (#23462393)

We can debate whether struggling with k8s and CI/CD would fit in the category. These are tooling not product but all part of the use of engineering resources. See the “choose boring technology” posts/articles.

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