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> Startups work the same. If this product becomes unmaintainable in 5 years, who cares? This is a reasonable stance for a startup to take. The majority of star
by BoxFour 3y ago
> Startups work the same. If this product becomes unmaintainable in 5 years, who cares?
This is a reasonable stance for a startup to take. The majority of startups likely won't last five years as they tend to fail.
Being alive in five years with technical debt is a good problem for most startups to have, because that means they managed to make it five years.
- guhcampos 3y agoExactly. That’s why I say I don’t like it, but understand it. I enjoy the fast paced and highly creative environments of startups more than the politics and bureaucracy of corporations, but the short term vision bothers me a lot. The result is I choose to work for midsized companies, or established startups. I kind of specialized in working on the growing pains of companies in their first hundred of engineers. There’s a lot to say about startup culture and the growth mindset, but I don’t consider it necessarily evil. It exists, lots of the products we use and love would be impossible to build without it. It can be extremely harmful, though. It burns out people, it leads to excessive risk taking, it favors aggressive, invasive marketing, it rewards reckless management - yet it works. It isn’t good or evil, like mostly everything in the World. It’s just… there.