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>A junior dev can build an alternative Of course junior dev can do it, the same way junior dev can make Youtube it'll work as long as there's less than 100 co
by tester34 5y ago
>A junior dev can build an alternative
Of course junior dev can do it, the same way junior dev can make Youtube
it'll work as long as there's less than 100 concurrent users on SO and less than 50 4K 20min videos on youtube
- piva00 5y agoSometimes I question myself if people posting these "a junior dev can build this product" haven't really worked with systems at scale and all of the myriad of issues that scale brings or if they are being the usual hyper-optimistic-dev that isn't considering much past the proof-of-concept point of a product. Either way is quite baffling how common this kind of comment is, almost a decade reading Hacker News and it pops up constantly.
- corobo 5y agoIt also doesn't matter if a junior dev could do it if they just don't do it If it's so trivial, go be rich!
- piva00 5y agoI remember this post from gregdoesit [1] as a good example of how much complexity is hidden under seemingly trivial interfaces. It's about Uber's supposedly bloated app, I believe that anyone who has worked at a scale where they had to support different national legal systems in their code would know that maintaining a large-scale product is nothing trivial. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25376346 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25376346