Rescue or Rebuild? Free Code-Health Quiz for Founders & CTOs

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Rescue or rebuild? Six questions, one verdict.

Question 1 of 6

Age & stack currency

How old is the core codebase?

Under 2 years 2 to 4 years 5 to 8 years Over 8 years, or honestly nobody is sure

How does a typical deploy go?

Automated and boring, several times a week Mostly smooth, with the occasional surprise We schedule around it and hold our breath Deploys break things often, and rollback is manual or missing

A small feature that took days a year ago now takes…

Still days Noticeably longer than it used to Weeks, with side effects to chase afterward We quietly avoid touching some areas at all

If your most senior developer left tomorrow…

We would be fine: docs and shared ownership Bumpy for a month, then fine Whole subsystems would go dark The product effectively lives in that one head

Production incidents over the last quarter…

Rare, root-caused, and they do not repeat Occasional, handled fast Regular firefighting, often the same fires The team basically lives in incident mode

Does the codebase still match where the product is going?

Yes. The architecture supports the roadmap Mostly, with a few standing workarounds It fights us on every big roadmap item It was built for a different product than the one we sell now

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Age & stack currency
Test & deploy safety
Change velocity
Knowledge risk
Incidents & stability
Business fit

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