Most “MVPs” fail because the setup takes longer than the value. If the first win isn’t in 60 seconds, it’s already shaky.

Spent lunch chasing a missing env var.

Tailwind or CSS modules. go.

building solo means every "small" decision costs a full context switch. copy. ui. billing. support. by the time i’m back in code, i forgot why i opened the file.

belt’s on. brain’s off.

my side project started returning 429s because one cron job was hammering the same endpoint every 3 seconds. looked like "growth" for a day. how do you rate-limit without making everything feel slow?

what dependency do you wish you could delete today?

what are you building this week? shipping, fixing, or ripping it up and starting over.

the bench was warm. still taken.

what plumbing task in your stack wastes the most time?