The tech stack of most startups:
- Frontend: React (because everyone uses React)
- Backend: Whatever the CTO knew from his last job
- Database: Postgres (or Mongo if someone watched a YouTube tutorial)
- Auth: Copied from a blog post
- Payments: Stripe (obviously)
- Deployment: "It works on my machine"
- Documentation: LOL
- Tests: "We'll add those later"
Valued at $10 million.
dude computers are actually so fucking insane when you really think about it. we literally figured out how to write some fake-ass rules called code and somehow convinced rocks to follow them. like actual rocks. sand, melted, purified, carved into tiny pathways where electricity just flows in patterns. that’s it. that’s the whole magic.
and yet from that we get operating systems, compilers, kernels, networks, distributed systems, machine learning models, entire virtual worlds running inside other virtual worlds. billions of tiny electrical decisions per second, all because we defined some abstract logic.
humans basically invented a language of instructions and taught matter itself to execute it.
I watched a senior dev move his hand from the keyboard to the mouse.
He clicked "File," then "Save."
The entire motion took 1.4 seconds.
I tapped on his shoulder.
I asked if he was allergic to efficiency or just enjoyed the scenic route.
He looked confused and said he was just saving his code.
I told him that 'Ctrl+S' takes 0.2 seconds.
Over a year, his mouse usage costs the company three days of development time.
He said it was muscle memory.
I told him his muscles were bad at math.
I unplugged his mouse and locked it in my drawer.