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Mohammac
Mohammac

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How to NOT kill your startup in the first 6 months

(aka how to avoid being the startup version of Titanic, big dreams, fancy tech, and one tiny iceberg )

Let me guess:

  • You're building your MVP.
  • You’ve got 5 users (3 are your friends).

And you're already planning a microservice architecture like you're Google.

Pause. Breathe. Read this.

We've seen it all. Founders building empires before selling a single lemonade.

Spoiler alert: You don’t need microservices to validate your idea.

You need:

  • Fast iterations
  • A simple, stable codebase
  • The ability to pivot without crying in your backend

So before you spin up 9 services, 3 message queues, and a CI/CD pipeline that looks like NASA built it

Read this: Monoliths-vs-Mircoservice

Go monolith.
Go simple.
Get real feedback.

Then scale like a beast. 🧠🚀

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