Not my experience: freelancers have often built the initial versions of a product that have then become the permanent version. Even products that start as proto

Not my experience: freelancers have often built the initial versions of a product that have then become the permanent version. Even products that start as prototypes, if not total trash, often end up evolving into real software projects. Why throw away software when you can iteratively improve and build on it? Unless the tech stack was wrong.