> I feel like HN comments are often sanctimonious to the point of ignorance. A solo dev, scrambling to get his project to the point where there is even the tiniest chance it will succeed, is likely to have a complex network of hardcoded filepaths, hostnames, and other magic numbers, strings, and config files that would make it very difficult to make portable without significant time and effort.
No, no, no. That's the "well, it's never happen before so why should I have planned for it?" attitude. If you are in a solo business it is the _most_ important time to pull out your SWOT chart be honest about threats and weaknesses. A solo company is literally the worse time to not consider weaknesses as you have the least amount of assets to cover calamity. His primary concern right now is to be able to reproduce his work on AWS or Azure. Period.
No, no, no. That's the "well, it's never happen before so why should I have planned for it?" attitude. If you are in a solo business it is the _most_ important time to pull out your SWOT chart be honest about threats and weaknesses. A solo company is literally the worse time to not consider weaknesses as you have the least amount of assets to cover calamity. His primary concern right now is to be able to reproduce his work on AWS or Azure. Period.