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> "if you don't get physically sick at the quality of the code in your MVP, then you are spending too much time on code quality." While exaggerated, I'd defini
by lytefm 5y ago
> "if you don't get physically sick at the quality of the code in your MVP, then you are spending too much time on code quality."
While exaggerated, I'd definitely agree. If you don't quite know yet where exactly your company will pivot to in the next year or whether the company will still exist, it doesn't make sense to optimize for code quality - but for product-market fit instead.
> Everyone always plans to "go back and do it right," but that never actually happens. That "physically sickening" MVP is the product for life.
After having raised an 8 M Series A and hiring some more developers and UX experts, we're currently rewriting most of our app code. It's not an automatism that the bad code gets built on for eternity.
- ChrisMarshallNY 5y agoOr you could hire people who do it right, the first time. Take a look at my work. Feel free to browse the commit logs, and see how fast I write it. I "put it all out there." It's quite possible to do very high-quality work, in very little time. Just maybe not from folks just out of code bootcamp. And...just to make it clear. I'm not looking for work. My dance card is very full, with the work I'm doing for free.