We Rewrote Everything in $hotlang, and Our Startup Still Failed

Re:We Rewrote Everything in $hotlang, and Our Startup Still ... by the_duke on Wednesday November 25, 2020 @08:25AM (#25208933)

I have seen the same, but came away with a different conclusion.

Shoddy architecture and even a bad product can be compensated by marketing, hype or a good sales team, while the most pristine architecture and codebase will not help you at all without any customers.

We technologists often focus on the technical aspects, but in many domains they are the least important part for a startup.

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Re:We Rewrote Everything in $hotlang, and Our Startup Still ... by colechristensen on Wednesday November 25, 2020 @08:41AM (#25209092)

You are in the business of doing a thing, not having an aesthetically pleasing tech architecture.

It is true that having a nice tech stack can make doing your thing easier, but it can also distract you from doing your thing well.

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Re:We Rewrote Everything in $hotlang, and Our Startup Still ... by raverbashing on Wednesday November 25, 2020 @09:07AM (#25209332)

Very good summary. I was going to write a similar thing.

Tech stack is important but (customer) money in the bank is importanter.

Your daily reminder that FB started with PHP. Ship and sell first, the rest can be done later (yes your customer doesn't care that you rewrote your backend to use nanoservices in Go deployed to hundreds of lambda functions).

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