[deepsun]

I worked with some of the folks from there, and honestly you make it sounds like tech debt is inevitable consequence haunting projects from year one.

I disagree, I think the folks just did a sloppy job of "let's bungee strap it all together" for speed, instead of more serious planning and architecturing. They self-inflicted the tech debt on them and got drowned in the debt interest super fast.

[sowbug]

There's someone out there who built the scalable version of Heroku at another garage startup. But we never heard of them because Heroku beat them to market.

[TranquilMarmot]

Sure, but that bungee strapped slop got them pretty damn far

[deepsun]

My point is that they would have gotten much farther. I'm not talking about architecture astronautics, just a little more thinking-ahead.