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Ask HN: what are the two best technical decisions you made for your startup?
Looking back on your startup and its progress so far, what are the two best technical decisions you've made? Did you know they would have such a dramatic impact?
- bdfh42 15y ago1. Tackle a hard problem : a) is interesting b) hard to follow 2. Choose a technology stack that will work for our projected scale and that we knew well (hint - may not be pop). We are having fun and will (shortly) be delivering as much joy as we can manage to our user community.
- waivej 15y ago1. Write our own profiling code: Lots of conventional wisdom doesn't stand up to running your own tests. 2. Use XML/XSL for a rendering/template engine: After 10 years, it is the cleanest and largest part of the code base.
- rman666 15y ago1. To use Emacs 2. To use Vi Or was it the other way around? I can't remember.