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by esulteric 321 days ago
> it is terrible, shoddy, insecure code, but he proved out a viable business with just a few hundred dollars of investment

I don't think he proved that. In fact the point of the story seems to be the opposite: even if you have a nice looking demo that does the thing, there is a lot of unseen cost to bringing it up to production spec that has to be accounted for.