We Rewrote Everything in $hotlang, and Our Startup Still Failed
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Re: We Rewrote Everything in $hotlang, and Our Startup Still Failed
#2Reads like a joke with no explanation for needing a rewrite in the first place.
The product itself was not used, dunno how folks assumed a rewrite would solve everything.
Re: We Rewrote Everything in $hotlang, and Our Startup Still Failed
#3Reads like a joke with no explanation for needing a rewrite in the first place. The product itself was not used, dunno how folks assumed a rewrite would solve everything.
Narrator: It was actually a joke.
Re: We Rewrote Everything in $hotlang, and Our Startup Still Failed
#4Reads like a joke with no explanation for needing a rewrite in the first place. The product itself was not used, dunno how folks assumed a rewrite would solve everything.
>Reads like a joke
Because it is. It's satire. Also posted yesterday with Rust and Haskell.
Re: We Rewrote Everything in $hotlang, and Our Startup Still Failed
#5Reads like a joke with no explanation for needing a rewrite in the first place. The product itself was not used, dunno how folks assumed a rewrite would solve everything.
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Re: We Rewrote Everything in $hotlang, and Our Startup Still Failed
#6I think I spotted the error they made. There is no mention of machine learning at all!
Re: We Rewrote Everything in $hotlang, and Our Startup Still Failed
#7I've found:
- amazing business running on ball of mud code maintained in an insane way
- the perfect architecture, CI/CD, TDD where the business/product has little/no value for the customer
Also, I've seen the same stacks succeed and fail. The only common thing I can see is:
- when the tech team fully understand the stack they're using - when the tech team fully understand the product and business they're building (and can make appropriate trade offs)
There are a bunch of basic tech things. E.g. the underlying infrastructure has to be performance, scale, secure etc. There's also the issue of choosing a tech you can actually recruit for.
Re: We Rewrote Everything in $hotlang, and Our Startup Still Failed
#8Hiring engineers based on GitHub stars check, rewriting codebase despite little to no customers check, no mention of anything other than the tech stack check, yep this has to be satire!
Re: We Rewrote Everything in $hotlang, and Our Startup Still Failed
#9We used “boring technology” (the stuff we happen to like) and our startup still failed.
Re: We Rewrote Everything in $hotlang, and Our Startup Still Failed
#10This is just a parameterized version of the post from yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25198571