Re:Ask HN: What do people do with the code from failed start...
by MrMike on Thursday September 22, 2011 @02:32AM
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I share similar battle scars. As painful as these situations are, the ability to pick oneself up, dust oneself off, and get back into the game is, in my humble opinion, a great skill (as long as you take the knowledge of what worked, what didn't, etc. with you into the next endeavor).
The code still lives on my laptop and I reference pieces from time to time. I would have open-sourced it, but it included a lot of expectations about how the infrastructure was set up and would have taken a ton of time to generalize or properly document. The demand obviously wasn't there or else we wouldn't have gone out of business.
So there she lies. ~100,000 lines of code and 3 years of my life. May she RIP.