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Regrets and lessons learned building Spectrum  ↦

Max Stoiber shares his regrets and lessons learned from tech choices made when building Spectrum. Yes, this is the same Spectrum recently acquired by GitHub.

With the benefit of hindsight, here are the technology choices I regret and the lessons I have learned.

Changing these decisions would not have made Spectrum a better product by itself. Yet, it would have saved us time and allowed us to spend more time experimenting.


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Cody Peterson

Cody Peterson

Portland, Oregon

UI/UX Designer and Developer. Future private detective. I now have a dog.

2019-01-16T21:12:39Z ago

It’s very interesting that he wishes they had used Next.js. Makes me even more excited about Next (I’ve been trying it out lately in my free time).

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