... uses this and what the minimal viable version is. It prevents you from making a huge dashboard, while I wanted a simple form. Second: suggest a file structure and wait for my approval. Checking a structure takes thirty seconds, unraveling a wrong one takes hours. Third: for every feature, write down what you re not going to do. That was the one that took me by surprise. Writing down what you re not doing helps keep scope creep away. None ...

... bursts Take marketing as seriously as building. It was my weak side, so more distribution and less hiding in the editor Build in public on X properly, share the real experience (the wins, the boring middle, the competitor that showed up last week) instead of only posting when something's polished Personal: Make real time for family, not the leftover time after shipping Protect the gym and running time even on shipping weeks I'll be documenting ... ... content engine running consistently instead of in bursts. Personal side: stop letting work eat into the early morning block I set aside for running, it's the one thing that keeps the rest of the week from unraveling

... security or reliability gaps. You need to actually understand what's happening there it's not a place to delegate blindly. Respect for pivoting to rebuild it properly instead of shipping the fragile version. Where did the complexity start unraveling first was it the data model, auth, or the deployment infra? Comment from Nate Stewart(@_becomevocal_): @mona_kohlhaas  How much did you spend on vibe coding, if you don't mind sharing? I'm really interested in storied that ... ... want it. Using it to ship a production SaaS from scratch is a different game entirely and most people figure that out the hard way Comment from Jim Jeffers(@jim_jeffers): The useful split here might be prototype spec vs

... many small companies, things start to unravel not because the idea is bad, but because the operations can t scale. How can you tell? Well, it s like that dream where the harder you swim, the further you end up from shore; you just can t keep up. You ve been caught in a riptide. It s at this point that it s worth pausing for a minute and sorting out your operations. By operations, I mean the processes, systems ... ... great idea. What they don t have is a system to validate whether this idea can turn into a business. Ops only gets trickier as you transition from starting a company to growing it. That s where things almost unraveled

... after login initiated. Just users suddenly disappearing after tapping Login. I had no idea why. So, I decided to send the app to one of my cousins to test it on their device. And that s when the mystery unraveled. They immediately hit a TLS error: secure connection failed message. something I had never seen on my own network, but completely broke on their office Wi-Fi. It was the network blocking the API connection. Takeaway Sometimes the most valuable ...

... great generals, I was planning on executing at great speed, which was a bit of a miss for me. Reworking things cost me a lot of time; the more features that were added, the harder it became to unravel. As people start using AI to write more and more code, it goes to show you still can't beat good foundations. Shipping fast is a skill in itself and one I will hopefully master! --- ### 2. Get the foundations right early ...

... founder of https://www.crunchit.ai/. An LLM-assisted system for product analytics helping unravel the black box of growth, experimentation and overall analytics. Ask me anything about storytelling, pitch decks, learning habits or community building (my previous venture onboarded over 600 DAOs). I'll be answering all questions on Monday, the 28th of August ...