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HN is an interesting place. 6 years ago it was “you need that many engineers, lol, I can build a clone this weekend.” Now it’s “you need many engineers, trust
by paulddraper 8mo ago
HN is an interesting place.
6 years ago it was “you need that many engineers, lol, I can build a clone this weekend.”
Now it’s “you need many engineers, trust me bro.”
- joefourier 8mo ago> HN is an interesting place. How is it interesting that in a forum with thousands of active users, someone posted a comment that disagreed with other comments from 6 years ago? Even in this thread, there's many different opinions being expressed.
- paulddraper 8mo agoIt's not a single user, rather the majority prevailing opinion/most upvoted comments.
- izacus 8mo agoBased on what? Your personal observation and memory bias?
- vict7 8mo agoHave you ever heard of the Goomba fallacy?
- joefourier 8mo agoOh I'm happy this has a name now! Even if it's quite silly.
- bob001 8mo agoNo, it's "if you already have engineers that know your stack and customers and business then getting rid of them to save a bit of short term cash is stupid unless you're out of runway because of bad business decisions." That is a tangential point to hiring more engineers. You may slow down the rate or hiring however the ROI for getting rid of them in a growing startup is silly imho. A collapsing startup is a different beast.