Is it wrong to get feedback from Stack Overflow on a live system architecture?

Question

I am the technical director at a startup, and I will eventually be tasked with implementing a "real" system architecture when we hire more programmers. Right now our clients are small enough, and it is just me, so documented deployments, source control, unit tests and quality assurance servers are non-existent. Eventually I will need to devise a work-flow and architecture patterns for the majority of the work we will do (e-commerce). If I posted an architecture diagram, and asked for feedback, would that be a misuse of the Stack Overflow system? I don't want to get into that battle of "hey, don't ask us to do your job for you", but the reality is that any programmer who eventually moves into this realm will have to figure it out with feedback from other developers. HighScalability.com is what comes to mind when I think about this sorta thing in terms of the knowledge I need. So if this is not the right kind of forum for that, then any book recommendations or white papers you can recommend would be appreciated.

Answer 1

I think most people here would be willing to help you with some high-level stuff. Just keep it brief - questions that contain a lot of lead-up tend not to get answered as often as those that are more succinct.

Answer 2

I would suggest that you would get the best response by asking for feedback on a specific aspect of your architecture diagram. Most people here are happy to bite off little chunks of work, and that way you also maximise the likelihood of attracting the attention of someone with specific skills.

Having said all of that this is a beta and one way to find out what would happen would be to go ahead and try it out - what is the worst thing that could happen?