Early-stage stack decisions are not about technical merit. They are bets about constraints: iteration speed, staffability, and time-to-next-primitive.
Product teams experiment. Most engineering teams still wait for the answer. Closing that gap means using code as a discovery tool.
Hiring your first engineers as a solo technical leader is nothing like hiring at scale. No panels, no second opinion, every hire defines the culture.
Running multiple SaaS products on one boring stack keeps you shipping instead of paying the novelty tax on every new project.
The founding engineer role is three concurrent jobs. Writing code is maybe a third of what determines success. Here is what the rest looks like.
Event-driven architecture is a design pattern. Microservices is a deployment topology. You can get decoupling without paying for distribution.
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