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> or found out there is no market and never used Right, that's why there is a lot of time pressure. You start with 20 or so different overlapping ideas in your
by Alex3917 8y ago
> or found out there is no market and never used
Right, that's why there is a lot of time pressure. You start with 20 or so different overlapping ideas in your head that each might or might not be viable, and then it's a race to see how many you can get through before running out the clock.
To me though this is a strong case for why total cost of ownership matters. If your startup's chances for success are determined by how many ideas you can try out in the market before running out of money or whatever, then why wouldn't you want a codebase that makes it as fast and easy as possible to transition from one variant of the idea to the next? To me that is a form of technical excellence.
- dasil003 8y agoYeah, it’s often treated as a binary proposition, when in reality it’s about the right tradeoffs just like anything else. One problem in SV culture is tenures are too short and there is too much boom/bust with rapid hiring and layoffs. When you actually stick around to see long-term impact of technical decisions you start to develop a sense for which things matter and where it makes sense to cut corners versus where you are painting yourself into one.