Comment by deepsun
20 days ago
I worked with some of the folks from there, and honestly you make it sounds like tech debt is inevitable consequence haunting projects from year one.
I disagree, I think the folks just did a sloppy job of "let's bungee strap it all together" for speed, instead of more serious planning and architecturing. They self-inflicted the tech debt on them and got drowned in the debt interest super fast.
There's someone out there who built the scalable version of Heroku at another garage startup. But we never heard of them because Heroku beat them to market.
Sure, but that bungee strapped slop got them pretty damn far
My point is that they would have gotten much farther. I'm not talking about architecture astronautics, just a little more thinking-ahead.