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Yup, people stuck on optimising (or overthinking which datastore to use) before actually having a business are missing the point.

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Or they miss the point when overthinking the whole code for the program/website. Get it done. Start finding customers.

The worst code I worked with was at travel agency startup and they are REALLY successful now. It was REALLY REALLY bad and hard to maintain. The owner of the business just said: well, bugs happen. But when a customer (not too many of course) encounters one, they probably call the helpdesk. Sounds stupid, worked great, business wise.

4 years later, I am sure they still have problems with the crappy code, but the business is fine!

Agree, the mantra of success is: GET SHIT DONE! Customers do not care what's your code coverage or how maintainable is your code. Or if it's Mongo or Postgres. They want features, they want it now, and if you can't deliver that because you are too busy refactoring that's bad.

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