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While it's true you don't need to design for scaling right off the bat, if you do become successful and keep pushing out the scaling pieces , the cost of scalin

While it's true you don't need to design for scaling right off the bat, if you do become successful and keep pushing out the scaling pieces , the cost of scaling later increases nonlinearly. At some point it becomes so important that you start losing customers and/or new business opportunities. A CTO should be able to foresee this and act before scaling becomes a behemoth project and no amount of money can buy time-to-market.

korzun 9y ago
> the cost of scaling later increases nonlinearly At some point it becomes so important that you start losing customers and/or new business opportunities. That simply is your opinion. You are more likely to lose customers for not focusing on the core product first.