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by tedmiston 3868 days ago
No, because your priority is building something people like quickly. Not building something well that people don't necessarily care about.

That said, tracking tech debt is important. Creating issues in Jira, or whatever you're using, can be valuable over time. Maybe there's one specific piece that gets in your way of building features every week, and tracking it will make it more obvious or help you realize, e.g. "we could make this 10x better with a few hours of effort vs. 12x better with a few days". Remember that product-market fit stage is when you'll have the highest percentage of your time to dedicate to building features -- might as well make the most of it.

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Good coding practices can help here, too: decent comments, (reasonable) tests, PR discussion, etc., can be self-documenting.