[polote]

Well I do not feel any of the 3 advice he gives, good advice.

First the longer you stay in heroku ,the most complex is it to exit it the time you really need it and the less flexible you are in the time being.

Second, wish he had pay for a pit team sooner, but could this money better used investing in marketing or sales like he probably did ?

The guy has obviously succeeded as a business owner, would it still be the case if he had implemented these advice ? We will never know, but what we know for sure is not implementing these advice made him successful

[kakwa_]

> We will never know, but what we know for sure is not implementing these advice made him successful

"Made him successful" implies a causality that is a bit too strong.

Indeed, we will never know for sure.

Maybe implementing these advice would have impeded development of other critical areas of his business.

Maybe it would have would have helped make is business more successful as he would have had a more reliable product.

Or maybe the business impact would have been neutral, but would have resulted in better quality of life/less stress for him and his employees.

But in general, the way I read this article is: they made good decisions overall, but as everything in the world, it was not optimal (switching platform too early, making some big mistakes like the credit card one, etc).

It's a very interesting read nonetheless, with clear take away:

* chose boring tech you know and focus on your product, not the tech, specially in the early days

* grow your infrastructure and complexity with your product needs

* accept you will mess-up but properly learn from it, and grow your organizational knowledge, structure and processes accordingly.

[codetiger]

I think he meant, to stay with managed services as long as possible. Which makes sense, as in the early stage, the focus has to be the functionality rather than cost/performance optimisation.

[ghiculescu]

I think our success is despite a lot of decisions (specifically the ones in the post), not because of them.