[chillax2]

Something doesn't really add up with the timelines in this story. I launched my own Angular2 site with SSR in the summer of 2017.

There were some rough edges, but it only took me a few days of hacking to get it working. Thankfully, the ecosystem is much better today

[Cthulhu_]

I think the difference might be that you knew what you wanted to build. That's usually the bigger issue in projects like this.

The other thing I can think of is that small teams or individuals can often outpace larger teams, at least when it comes to pure software development - in practice, a team handles things like 3rd party integrations, customer feedback, stakeholder management, demos, etc as well.

[dfcowell]

Author here. I agonized over the dates in the post when I was writing it. It’s correct to the best of my knowledge, but details fade with time.

I’m glad you had an easier time than we did!