No, actually. The point is to build a profitable business.
replyHow long has your startup been around? I’ve worked at plenty of startups over the past 20 years. Including one that was still calling themselves a startup 10 years out. The org I work at now was a startup before my tech giant employer acquired them. We have a very bloated and very profitable 8 year old codebase that is barely 500k LOC.
replyI’ve never seen a startup with a multi million line legacy codebase.
They may have forked something
replyDefinitely possible, but up thread they wrote:
reply>”Have you worked at many startups?”
In response to a question about a legacy codebase at a startup. That implies that they think whatever they are doing is common. And forking a multi million line codebase and heavily developing it isn’t common for startups.
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replyI don't know if that's the whole point, but I agree with the sentiment, why would a startup be working in legacy code and where would that code come from if this is truly the start of something.
replyOP might just be working at a small software company or for one that broke from a bigger one and is now "startup" like?