Don't just try to be the kind of like cool engineer just built things from scratch. No, just use all these frameworks. But I know CTOs tell me, oh, it's too expensive to use this third party API or it's too slow with doesn't scale to use XYZ. With us, the average technical founder, the average startup dies. That's not a good outcome.
YC Group Partner Diana Hu was the CTO of her YC startup Escher Reality, which was acquired by Niantic (makers of Pokemon Go). She shares her advice for being a technical founder at the earliest stages - including topics like how to ship an MVP fast, how to deal with technology choices and technical debt, and how and when to hire an engineering team.
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