I have deep sympathy for OP. And reading comments I agree with the majority opinion to tackle a piece at a time rather than attemp a full scratch rewrite. Exper

I have deep sympathy for OP. And reading comments I agree with the majority opinion to tackle a piece at a time rather than attemp a full scratch rewrite. Experience and Joel’s famous post bring me there. But if I could hijack and m curious the HN opinion on a variant: what if the product never launched? It’s 10,000 files of spaghetti and dreams that just cant work well enough to put in fro t of customers? I was brought in on such a project and the very kind business owner was under the impression they were close to launch because of all the features he’d seen demoed in isolation. But it was like a bridge built of gum and two-by-fours, spanning a massive gully but with a 10 foot gap in the middle, and nowhere near the strength to fill that last span.