Every Tech Startup Founder Should Know This
Why My Startup Never Went Live Despite a Good-to-Go Tech
6 Key Mantras for a Technical Co-Founder.I got 99 problems but the tech ain’t one.Last weekend, I sat down to officially deprovision all the engineering resources running on AWS and Azure for Veniqa — a New York-based fashion startup that aimed to serve consumers in South Asian countries to shop from luxury western brands.We had a suite of apps built from the ground up over the past few months, but as we handled the first few rounds of shipments, the logistical complications made it difficult to support multiple countries. As a result, the technical team, including me, branched out to form Qarece targeting only the country of Nepal in the meantime.UPDATE: Veniqa is now available as an Open Source E-commerce Framework under the MIT License. It also recently appeared as a trending topic on Hacker News and a top trending project on Github.The engineering was one hell of a ride though — architectural debates, late night coding marathons, hacky discoveries to optimize our resource consumptions, and a deep satisfaction that comes with…