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Discussion on: Do you have any bad “sunk cost fallacy” stories?

 
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Adrian B.G.

It is true, but ...

most projects I've seen on APIs can be switched around with a few weeks of dev hours.

For example Paypal and Stripe can be easily be replaced in most websites I know, sometimes with a simple click (install different addon). We moved from Parse to a custom API in 2 weeks I think (when it failed).

What I meant is:

  • the downsides of a language/framework on the long run are way more devastating and limiting (see Instagram/FB with their PHP for example)
  • the SaaS are limited to one feature usually of the project, cannot affect in most cases the entire project, you can switch them in small steps/soft releases/ab testing