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What motivated you to rewrite it rather than fixing the debt in the old product?

• tluyben2 6y ago
  It was a ~8 year old mix and mesh of tech was not really fixable. We also got too many requests for enterprise clients for Java. And that would have been impossible. We more than doubled in revenue after the rewrite because now we could go for fortune 500 countries. It was a different time: the product was a combi of perl, php, c++. And then the business world, at least here, went over to java backends.
  • tluyben2 5y ago
    Cannot edit anymore but: countries is meant to be companies.
  • chris_j 5y ago
    Many thanks for the explanation. If the product is built using different tech from what you want to use then a rewrite does make a lot of sense.