Every bug fix is paying down technical debt. We don't squash every bug, we fix the most important ones. Otherwise, we'd be swatting bugs all day. If there is a

Every bug fix is paying down technical debt. We don't squash every bug, we fix the most important ones. Otherwise, we'd be swatting bugs all day. If there is a bug in the woods, and the bug takes a shit, but no one is around to hear it... Now, is it going to kill a startup? Hardly. At that point, an MVP, it's probably still small enough that the better decision is to rewrite it altogether. If you split the server and the UI to begin with, you can re-design the front-end and make a party out of it, try to make it pretty this time. If you're at the point where you need more than 1 person to handle the whole app, then you're not a startup anymore, imo. You have a proven small business.