No need to apologize. I think your question was clear enough. Probably my lack of sleep plus me being not a native speaker. No rudeness intended from my side ei

No need to apologize. I think your question was clear enough. Probably my lack of sleep plus me being not a native speaker. No rudeness intended from my side either. I'm not in a YComb startup, but was part of one (non YC :-)) that went down 2 years ago. So it's probably off-topic here but I think it might be useful so I just post (also writing about might help me get over it ;-)). Our project was a rather complicated Java thing. We started off with XP and everything was sort of fine. Running short of time we decided that we had to code at twice the speed(!). No more XP, no more Java doc(!), 6 months all went fine, then 2 new people in the team, and two old people out. Actually it was 2 old out (rather unexpected) and 2 new in, which made it worse. A total mess. A generic advice: Always keep an eye on the codebase and try to spread the knowledge of it. It's not only that the wrong person might quit for whatever reason, people get sick, stranded while travelling, crazy etc ... . Best luck with your venture