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Do startups build their own tools at all? At what stage do they usually start building custom tools?
by gcost 12y ago
Do startups build their own tools at all? At what stage do they usually start building custom tools?
- wmf 12y agoAlmost all good tools were built for in-house use first. Rails is a classic example and there's a front-page article today about the history of Cassandra. But you should only build a tool if that's less work than learning/adapting an existing one, which is almost never. Either existing stuff has to be really bad/nonexistent or youhave to have an idea(+execution) for how to make something 10x better and a need for 10x better.