Why This System Looks the Way It Does — Recoverflow's 6-Day Design Journey

The day after submitting to the hackathon, I finally had a moment to look back at the whole system. Turned out something surprising. In these 7 days, we spent more time thinking about architecture than writing code — by a factor of two. Jun 9-11 PRE-EVENT ← 4 days, pure design Jun 12 KICKOFF Jun 13-