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by rhizome 4914 days ago
And just as an anecdote, I built a prototype for a client that laid fallow for a couple of years while he worked on some parallel business ideas that I also built, but when it came time to return to fire up the original idea there had been major language and framework version upgrades in the meantime. I had to almost rebuild the app from scratch due to the lack of tests in the MVP that could tell me what was what. Basic tests would have cut the upgrade time in half. Not that I mind the billings, but this time and effort gets in the way of the bizdev.