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by TheYahiaBakour 19 days ago
"the first 90% of the code accounts for the first 90% of the development time. The remaining 10% of the code accounts for the other 90% of the development time."

now for my actual thoughts, if that works for anyone in production reliably, then they should at-least try to do that.

many of my customers moved from in-house solutions because the engineering time spent on maintaining something like this alone makes it quite the undertaking, the infra needed to support something like a few hundred TPS w a browser fleet would cost more than a sub to us in the majority of cases

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Conversely, many of my customers abandoned many of their SaaS solutions because they can now hand roll the 10% of the SaaS solution they need in 15 minutes.

That’s not to say all SaaS is going away. But a good hunk of the single simple solution products are going to suffer

Correction: is not going to, is already suffering.
touché
the remaining 10% accounts for the other 10,000% of the development time
i see you too are an experienced dev