Iurii Uses: #Technical Debt

We took over a Next.js project from another agency and inherited a mess – failing builds, no tests, deployments that worked locally and broke in production.

Our app had slowed to a crawl and the previous developer had left no documentation. Customers were starting to churn over load times.

I’d built most of our MVP with Cursor and it looked finished – it compiled, the tests were green, the demo worked. It just wouldn’t survive real users.

We had an acquisition offer on the table and I needed to know whether our own codebase would survive the buyer’s technical review before I walked into that room.