> A friend sent me this screenshot the other day - his backend had been running for 7 days without a proper database setup. Just failsafes returning empty respo

> A friend sent me this screenshot the other day - his backend had been running for 7 days without a proper database setup. Just failsafes returning empty responses. Any technical expert would tear this apart immediately. (We're talking about a > But people were using it daily and paying for it. Assuming this was something customers cared about, it's called "burning the reputation". Yes, it can be quite profitable - ask Broadcom. But it is usually done _after_ the company is famous and has tons of customers, not before.