Re:Ask News.YC: Should you rewrite your software from scratch?
by sanj on Tuesday July 31, 2007 @09:30PM
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Writing "one to throw away" is an excellent idea. You'll figure out the hard parts of the problem and if it has a chance of succeeding. This is what a startup should do post demo-day.
Throwing away something that's been tuned to target customers is a mistake. This is what Joel is talking about.
Most importantly, these are very, very different activities.
Except, of course, when time and money is ticking and they're not. Then you have to brave (which is what you call it when it works) or foolish (which is what you call it when it doesn't).
Throwing away something that's been tuned to target customers is a mistake. This is what Joel is talking about.
Most importantly, these are very, very different activities.
Except, of course, when time and money is ticking and they're not. Then you have to brave (which is what you call it when it works) or foolish (which is what you call it when it doesn't).