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zephentoday at 1:43 PM1 replyview on HN

You need to be careful with this one, or reductio ad absurdum might lead you to not build microservices, or even a monolithic app, before you have acquired your first customer.


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xnxtoday at 2:50 PM

True, but also "Do Things that Don't Scale" (https://www.paulgraham.com/ds.html). There are many examples of successful companies that had customers before they had products.