Ask HN: Building for Joy vs. Building for Scale

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herbst · 6h ago

Scale? As in using the whole AWS stack for maybe 100 daily clicks? Or scale as in avoiding 1:N and building a proper data model that doesn't fail on scale?

I never build for "scale" I just have joy building clean code. I never experienced scale issues that couldn't be solved by upgrading a 5$ VPS to the next level.

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