This actually sounds pretty ideal for someone early in their career. Having to do that much must have been a great learning experience -- one of the perks at working at a startup.
Definitely. In spite of the insane hours I worked sometimes to keep that ship a float, it was a really amazing and unique experience. I feel really lucky to have started out there. I left the company about 13 years ago and the product is still running and profitable. I did one rewrite from raw servlets to Struts while I was there. They've tried two rewrites since I left to get it into more modern tech, but both rewrites failed, so a LOT of my code lives on. That's a really great feeling knowing that something I created is still valuable and useful over a decade later.
