It just doesn't seem that dirty to me. I've had such experiences over and over at various startups; it's just part of doing something none of you have ever done before. I especially found sickeningly familiar the part where everything seems to work fine when you try it, and when people try it in front you, but people who are somewhere else invariably run into mysterious problems that they can't seem to articulate. "Well, it's fine now that you're here, but earlier nothing worked!".