Questions tagged [startup]
A new business just starting up.
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Am I right that switching programming languages will have little impact on the scalability of a CRUD API?
An external consultant to our team advised us to rewrite our SaaS offering (essentially a CRUD API) in .NET because this is more "scalable" than using Node.js (or Ruby on Rails, Flask, etc.)....
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Two types of problems? [closed]
According to my experience, there are two types of problems:
For some problems I have been able to use some quick/dirty workarounds. Users are happy. Since the outcome quality has been acceptable for ...
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Perfect product vs progressive releases
There can be some approaches regarding releasing a software product:
Perfection before launch to generate a technical gap with rivals
Progressive frequent releases and getting user feedback
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How to deliver fast and avoid growth challenges with a codebase?
Startup Context
A friend of mine recently asked me to be a part time software engineer for her startup which has yet to write any code. She is fairly serious and has already raised a fair bit of ...
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Why it is the good to use WordPress instead of creating one from scratch? [closed]
why every startup and every big company uses #wordpress ? what is the benefit of using it ? fast management , easy to use , customization instead of creating one with html , css , js and back-end (...
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Code review reasonable for on-spec project?
I’ve been interacting with a very early stage startup founder (no funding, just a simple site w/some visitors) and have offered to build out a microservice that helps automate some currently-manual ...
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Do I need requirement analysis if there's no client?
I think it happened to everyone, having side projects, trying to do something new and big in their spare time, or maybe having a little startup where everyone has clear in their mind what the software ...
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How do I handle disagreement in a code review regarding an unlikely edge case?
I am working at a robotics startup on a path coverage team and after submitting a pull request, my code gets reviewed.
My teammate, who has been on the team for more than a year, has made some ...
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Should the developer help customer to write the user stories? [duplicate]
Recently, two guys contacted me and asked me to build their mobile app.
They have a brand new concept and want an app quickly.
I told them that I need some user stories and some specifications by ...
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How significant is node's advantage of training developers in only one language and putting them on tasks across the tech-stack? [closed]
I have recently joined a startup as CTO/co-founder. The startup and I have been thinking about moving the existing codebase (which is in PHP5.5, laravel framework) to node.js .
Main reason for this ...
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Is it common for the founder of a web app to lack technical expertise to scale it? [closed]
When I look at things like Twitter, it seems like the idea is so simple to implement initially that the founder does not have to be very technically talented. Basically it's just a guy with a good ...
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Lean Startup MVP: Quality Code or Quick and Dirty [duplicate]
Hello some programmers might know about the lean philosophy,
building a minimal viable product Lean Startup MVP.
I ask myself (when building Webapps):
"Should I put effort into writing good ...
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How to integrate a second programmer to a startup [duplicate]
I'm the technical founder of a startup and I'm currently looking to hire a second developer for our product.
Since I've been the sole developer, there is no formal organization for the project and I ...
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Selecting the (right?) application design [closed]
While working to build software products for early stage startups, I have seen two very common schools of thought that define an approach to application design.
Those 2 paradigms typically include ...
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Creating a custom GUI. App/DE/WM?
I am starting with this project of mine of writing a custom UI for linux. What would happen is:
The computer would boot into this UI which would not be the typical taskbar/icons/startbutton kind of ...
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