If only it were satire...
Pretty sure it's 100% satire, but that doesn't mean it's not the story of 80% of startups.
We Rewrote Everything in Rust, and Our Startup Still Failed
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Re: We Rewrote Everything in Rust, and Our Startup Still Failed
#12satire is missing from the title.
I mean if you need a satire tag to realize this is satire, I don't know what to say.
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#13'...Our incredible journey...'
I hope they were thinking of https://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com/ when they wrote this!
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#14Publishing this on Google Docs is so passe, clearly should be on Substack or Ghost
Re: We Rewrote Everything in Rust, and Our Startup Still Failed
#15> We pushed back the launch for two months to tweak our build system to perfection
That line got me
Re: We Rewrote Everything in Rust, and Our Startup Still Failed
#16Great satire. But I have seen teams of incredible engineers doing amazing things perfectly and still go out of business because its not how amazing your engineering is, it's how amazing your product or service is to people who are willing to pay (or someone is willing to pay you).
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#17Everything about this screams satire, except it just doesn't have the typical humour element (to me at least), so I'm not even sure now.
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#20I can't believe they didn't use Kubernetes for deployment.
What a bunch of amateurs - no wonder their product failed.