Startup Diagnostic

Tech Stack Fitness Score™

Assess whether your tech stack can handle 10x growth. Technical debt kills 40% of startups during scale-up.

40%
Killed by tech debt
3x
Rewrite vs fix cost
67%
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Scalability

Ability to scale up

Ability to add instances/servers

25
ImpossibleComplexManualSemi-autoAuto-scale

Database architecture for scale

25
MonolithicReplicasBasic shardingAdvanced shardingDistributed

Session and state independence

25
StatefulPartialExternal sessionsStatelessEvent-driven

Maintainability

Ease of maintenance and evolution

Split into independent modules/services

25
MonolithCoupled modulesModulesMicroservicesDomain-driven

Technical documentation quality

25
NoneOutdatedBasicCompleteAuto-generated

Level of automated tests

25
<10%10-30%30-60%60-80%>80%

Performance

Speed and optimization

Average API/page latency

25
>2s1-2s500ms-1s200-500ms<200ms

Multi-level cache usage

25
NoneDB only+App cache+CDNEdge+Redis

Code/query optimization practices

25
N+1 everywhereBasicQueries OKProfiledFull APM

Ecosystem

Community and integrations

Community size and activity

25
NicheSmallActiveLargeMassive

Developer availability on market

25
RareDifficultMediumAvailableAbundant

Richness of libs/APIs/plugins

25
PoorLimitedDecentRichExhaustive

Cost

TCO and budget optimization

Software licensing cost

25
ProhibitiveExpensiveModerateLowOpen Source

Cloud/server resource efficiency

25
x10 marketx5 marketx2 marketMarketOptimized

Dev team productivity

25
Very slowSlowNormalFastVery fast

Startup context