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Looking at this team's project at github.com/reworkd, it clearly tells the maturity of the product as well as the team. Emoji driven development. Emoji's for all commit messages. Monkeys, bananas, rockets, fireworks, you name it, they have it in their commit message.

In that blog they say they have now added very robust unit and integration tests, so I don't think this is an issue.

> We had eight ECS tasks on AWS, all running five instances of our backend (overkill, yes we know, but to be fair we had AWS credits).

Yes, that's a very fair reasoning. YC did the right thing by investing in this company. Fits very well with the rest of their portfolio.

> Edit: I want to preface this by saying yes the practices here are very bad and embarrassing (and we've since added robust unit/integration tests and alerting/logging),

Very believable.