i was an adviser for a startup that never moved past using email, slack, excel, ifttt and a little bit of cloudformation for all it's "code". they always intend

i was an adviser for a startup that never moved past using email, slack, excel, ifttt and a little bit of cloudformation for all it's "code". they always intended to build out a "platform" but the tooling they had scaled fine and took them right to acquisition ~2 years after launch