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5 Things to Think About Before You Start Building Anything
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Most engineering problems start before the first line of code. Think first. Then type.
1. What Problem Are You Actually Solving?
Feature requests lie.
Users describe symptoms, not root causes.
2. Who Owns This Long Term?
Temporary code becomes permanent.
Design for maintenance.
3. What Happens at Scale?
Will this:
- Break at 10x traffic?
- Break at 100x data?
Think ahead.
4. How Will You Measure Success?
If you don't define metrics, you'll ship blindly.
5. Can You Make It Simpler?
Simple systems scale. Complex systems collapse.