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Ask HN: How bad should the code be in a startup?

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Ask HN: How bad should the code be in a startup? | Hacker News Hacker News new | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submit login Ask HN: How bad should the code be in a startup? 192 points by andy_ppp on June 7, 2020 | hide | past | favorite | 176 comments Hey Hacker News! I was recently involved in a startup where the CEO had made a crazy complex app with prisma - it did loads of things but it was a mad balancing act of insecurity, bugs, badly mangled code and database design that left a lot to be desired. I think my problem is they were just copying something that already exists rather th

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