Yes, please, antagonize technical expertise! When shit hits the fan, it makes us look better.

It's one thing to advocate not over-engineering your minimum viable product, but it's quite another to normalize releasing Potemkin village products and hoping customers pay before they realize the product doesn't work.

If you're the technical expert and you have zero customers, you're in position to win any customer who values technology most of all. You may not even need persuasive sales efforts, mere exposure alone might get the ball rolling.

OTOH, if you're the persuasive sales expert you'll always be so loaded down with customers that you never have time to cater to the most technically demanding ones. Leaving those customers as low-hanging fruit for the top technologists instead.

If it's a technology company, the only time everybody really wins is when you're both.

> A friend sent me this screenshot the other day - his backend had been running for 7 days without a proper database setup. Just failsafes returning empty responses. Any technical expert would tear this apart immediately. (We're talking about a

> But people were using it daily and paying for it.

Assuming this was something customers cared about, it's called "burning the reputation". Yes, it can be quite profitable - ask Broadcom. But it is usually done _after_ the company is famous and has tons of customers, not before.