Also, I think most tech debt doesn’t take the form of coding errors, but decisions with external dependencies, and difficult migrations - changing your api sche

Also, I think most tech debt doesn’t take the form of coding errors, but decisions with external dependencies, and difficult migrations - changing your api schema, self-hosted instead of managed databases, unscalable database architecture. The hard hard problems. Not that you shouldn’t take in the tech debt early on; a startup shouldn’t start being infinitely scalable.