As a technical founder, have you ever felt the urge to rewrite the entire code to your product? In this video, I share a thinking process that will help you understand if you REALLY need to rewrite the code or if you should go for a strategic refactoring.
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Fantastic video Dan. I've been struggling with management trying to convince them we should do a massive rewrite. Hopefully this video can help elaborate concepts to them that I've been struggling to portray.
Another way to not have to do a rewrite, is building a modular app that programs to interfaces. I've seen may code bases that get this basic wrong and end up making everything tightly coupled. But if you have internal APIs, you can easily just throw away a module and keep the rest. I do a lot of frontend work, those examples come easy to me, so if you're building a SPA try to clearly separate your business logic from your UI components. Recently I worked on an app that used firebase but we abstracted all the firebase logic away and made sure none of it was ever mixed into the UI code so when we moved to postgresql + a message broker, we barely had to touch the UI code. This decoupling obviously should always exist between FE and BE, but there's no reason it can't also exist between modules within FE or BE. Of course it takes experience to know how best to do this. DAN, thoughts on this?
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It's great that you take time to put out content but what is your mission? Why don't you or your team respond to comments? Just asking bc I've slowed down on your channel after noticing your disregard for your loyal fans. I hope your day is amazing Sir, you still have great content I just want to see what your strategy is. Thank you.
Not to mention that you start to compete against your self at some point of a rewrite. Then you have two products which compete in functionality and design and you will find yourself in selling both of them.
As a technical founder, have you ever felt the urge to rewrite the entire code to your product? In this video, I share a thinking process that will help you understand if you REALLY need to rewrite the code or if you should go for a strategic refactoring.
▸▸Are you a technical founder? Then you need this resource. The Code Base Remodeller™ will make you an expert in business decision making. Grab it here: bit.ly/3J88Ghs
Fantastic video Dan.
I've been struggling with management trying to convince them we should do a massive rewrite.
Hopefully this video can help elaborate concepts to them that I've been struggling to portray.
Another way to not have to do a rewrite, is building a modular app that programs to interfaces. I've seen may code bases that get this basic wrong and end up making everything tightly coupled. But if you have internal APIs, you can easily just throw away a module and keep the rest. I do a lot of frontend work, those examples come easy to me, so if you're building a SPA try to clearly separate your business logic from your UI components. Recently I worked on an app that used firebase but we abstracted all the firebase logic away and made sure none of it was ever mixed into the UI code so when we moved to postgresql + a message broker, we barely had to touch the UI code. This decoupling obviously should always exist between FE and BE, but there's no reason it can't also exist between modules within FE or BE. Of course it takes experience to know how best to do this.
DAN, thoughts on this?
Dear Dan,
We follow your videos and would like to thank you for the valuable information you provide.
We have a platform for captioning videos, and to show our gratitude, we would like to caption 50 of your videos for free.
Best wishes
Deskdub Team
It's great that you take time to put out content but what is your mission? Why don't you or your team respond to comments? Just asking bc I've slowed down on your channel after noticing your disregard for your loyal fans. I hope your day is amazing Sir, you still have great content I just want to see what your strategy is. Thank you.
As usual, you're f. right. The number 2 makes me smile. Thank you!
Not to mention that you start to compete against your self at some point of a rewrite. Then you have two products which compete in functionality and design and you will find yourself in selling both of them.
Kajabi (Online Course Delivery Platform) has done this several times since the original Kajabi Classic in 2010