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Strong disagree. Costs open a lot of possibilities, especially when bootstrapping. A bay area full stack developer is easily $1-200/hour. You can find one on internationally for $10-20/hr. If you have funding, maybe that doesn't matter. If you are paying out of pocket, that is the difference between executing or not.
When the root cause is under-capitalization, that’s a better problem to spend energy on. Because it has compounding returns. Cost reduction has diminishing returns. Starting out under-capitalized means the business is default-dead. Odds are no amount of hard work will change that (that’s the nature of diminishing returns). Of course all this is in the abstract. Actual businesses need different amounts of capitalizati…
EE with 10years web dev experience, willing to grind 48 hours without sleep on tough problems. He was paying 2k/month