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> The rebuild will likely end up easier, IMO, because the screens and the logic is all done. Most of it just has to be moved to strict backend and then have the APIs secured correctly.

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The hardest thing about most business software is rarely technical. CRUD apps are CRUD apps.

In this case, it's understanding the use cases and flows that the customers value and where the incumbents are coming up short.

The hard thing about CRUD apps is how to structure your data, which is not something easy to rectify later on.

For relational data, nothing could be further from the truth.

> For relational data

There are other (worse) ways to structure data, you should not assume that a badly-built CRUD app uses a good one.

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