[alain94040]

Neither coding nor internal prototypes were the slow part

That is not my experience mentoring 100+ startup founders. Building a prototype, the gateway to serious customer engagement, used to take months and many startups would die before finishing their first one.

[skydhash]

Aren't those startups the ones wanting a google style infrastructure based on kubernetes with database sharding, an event-source architecture,... And when you told them a few VPS with postgres would have sufficed, they absolutely insisted that unless it's a next.js app backed by a serveless ecosystem and tens SaaS, they couldn't build their products?