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Great point. I give the author of this post props for trying this and it has been an entertaining proposition. But to me premise 2 is admitting there will be ma
by elpakal 8y ago
Great point. I give the author of this post props for trying this and it has been an entertaining proposition. But to me premise 2 is admitting there will be massive shortcuts taken here. There is now way one person could build a product that would scale as well as a product made by an entire team. You might be able to get it about 90% there, but the last 10% is the hardest IMHO.
In my experience this kind of rationale is what leads to MVPs being spun out quickly using hybrid tools which have a hard time scaling. Sure it kinda looks like the real deal, but the product will limit the growth potential of your company.
- zzzcpan 8y agoThere are plenty of products/services built by a single person that only hired more people once they were able to afford it and needed it. This is especially common when access to VC funding is pretty much non-existent and you can't just hire a bunch of people.
- esquire_900 8y agoI'd much rather be in the position of having too much demand for a badly build piece of software then an awesome team, VC funds and a beautiful Elixir architecture with no demand. Reminds me of this post [1] that hit the top pages yesterday. It's actually the anti-example for my argument, but the way software runs in the real world. Apparently it's commercially more interesting to run cr*p, even if that gives rise to a significant probability of costing you $172k a second. I think the first sell is special, the idea just leads you there. [1] https://sweetness.hmmz.org/2013-10-22-how-to-lose-172222-a-second-for-45-minutes.html https://sweetness.hmmz.org/2013-10-22-how-to-lose-172222-a-s...