Hi, and welcome, glad to see another adopted Kiwi in DEV!
Looks like you made a leap into the deep end of the pool. I know the feeling. Take some time to acknowledge and deal with any discomfort brought by that pesky Impostor Syndrome, and realize that is not real, you got this.
As you mentioned in your learnings, sub optimal decisions will be made, don't sweat them. In a startup we make the best decisions we can with the information we have at the time. Uncertainty is a day to day reality. The worst you could do is to not do anything. Inaction kills startups, bad decisions turn into Pivots ;-)
Absolutely agree. As we're a year in now, we're starting to feel the pain of some of those early decisions. Whenever I find myself regretting them, I have to remind myself that we wouldn't be where we are today without them. Deliberately going down the route of tech debt was something I particularly struggled with.
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Hi, and welcome, glad to see another adopted Kiwi in DEV!
Looks like you made a leap into the deep end of the pool. I know the feeling. Take some time to acknowledge and deal with any discomfort brought by that pesky Impostor Syndrome, and realize that is not real, you got this.
As you mentioned in your learnings, sub optimal decisions will be made, don't sweat them. In a startup we make the best decisions we can with the information we have at the time. Uncertainty is a day to day reality. The worst you could do is to not do anything. Inaction kills startups, bad decisions turn into Pivots ;-)
Absolutely agree. As we're a year in now, we're starting to feel the pain of some of those early decisions. Whenever I find myself regretting them, I have to remind myself that we wouldn't be where we are today without them. Deliberately going down the route of tech debt was something I particularly struggled with.