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Comment by zephen

5 hours ago

You need to be careful with this one, or reductio ad absurdum might lead you to not build microservices, or even a monolithic app, before you have acquired your first customer.

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xnx  4 hours ago

True, but also "Do Things that Don't Scale" (https://www.paulgraham.com/ds.html). There are many examples of successful companies that had customers before they had products.

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