[akavi]

I've been at many startups during a fundraising round, and I don't think I've ever seen or heard of an investor auditing the codebase.

[xwdv]

I offer this as a service. Typically when there’s a big acquisition and an audit of the codebase is needed, I gather up a group of developers each paid about $250/hr to go through the codebase and conduct audits looking for any red flags and giving an estimation of existing technical debt.

[8note]

This sounds both really painful and really fun.

Is there a line item for "this code feels like there's something wrong, but I can't tell what" ?

[grogenaut]

When I did code dilligence, I just add it to a list of possible risks... or areas we'd like deeper investigation. Usually go back over it in follow up.

[kasey_junk]

I’ve been apart of many code audits as part of acquisitions and fundraising rounds on both sides.

I don’t know how prevalent it is but I’ve done it enough times that I don’t bat an eye when it comes up.

[dieselgate]

Neither have I but read some stuff about Tesla devs checking out the Twitter codebase or something? It’s ridiculous but that’s the only data point known to me

[jfengel]

That wasn't due diligence (which he'd waived) but a census of what he'd bought after the fact. They weren't validating the purchase, but helping him plan what to do with it.