Here's why you should regard all such advice skeptically: sub-linear scaling. If you can avoid hiring a backend team early, there will be a cost advantage. Ho

Here's why you should regard all such advice skeptically: sub-linear scaling. If you can avoid hiring a backend team early, there will be a cost advantage. However this advantage will evaporate once you start to scale up. At some point it will work against you until you burn all of your cash. Serverless products price support and infrastructure maintenance on a linear basis, but these items are very responsive to economy of scale. One person can maintain a few, a few hundred, or a few thousand servers with the appropriate tooling. So go ahead and start serverless. Remember that this is a decision that needs review as your business scales.