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by lmm 4051 days ago
I'll give the answer: because at that stage you're still trying to find product-market fit. If you can save $1k (say - and the dev time to develop a Pusher alternative probably costs more than that) in the validation stage by using an approach that will cost you 5x more in the long run - then that's a good business decision, because only 10% of the ideas that you try to validate are going to become real products.