A founder reflects on building their early company with minimal tech: a bare-bones web app and MATLAB algorithms. The focus was understanding the core problem and working with city partners, not chasing flashy tools. Verify the problem is worth solving before you optimize the architecture.
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But one last component I want to talk about is don't look too much into the details. When we started a company, the technology was very, very scrappy. We just built a bare bones web application. Actually a machine learning algorithms were on matlab, a matlab server. And we didn't really care about let's find the most latest technology and let's make it the coolest app ever. What we instead focused on was let's work with the cities and really figure out what exactly should this be. And now obviously that's not the case. We have a very secure lot of microservices and we did invest in technology. But don't overthink that. Focus on what really matters, which is, is the problem even something you want to work on?