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Nothing ages a product faster than a founder who stopped using it themselves. For real, you can feel it in the details, the stuff that only breaks if you're in there daily. Like, six months of not opening your own thing and it shows.

This is pretty much why I always prefer to self-host everything. This shouldn’t cost more than $50/mo.

Good morning. Started my day like this, which hasn't happened in months. Let's see how long that lasts 🙏

Hotfix (n.): a change you'd never approve in a code review, shipped straight to prod, with a commit message that says "fixed".

I helped a friend run some numbers on his business a few days ago. His MRR looked freakin' good at first glance. But then you subtract what it costs him to keep the thing running and he's basically working himself into the ground. All that for margins that pretty much any

Roadmap (n.): a document describing what you would build if nothing unexpected happened, written by someone who has been doing this long enough to know things will.

Alright, so would it be considered lazy if I cooked a steak in the airfryer? Like, honestly.

Dogfooding (v.): using your own product every day and slowly discovering every decision you got wrong, in order, at the exact moment you're least able to do anything about it.

Technical debt (n.): a loan you gave yourself at a great rate, fully intending to pay it back right after this next feature, which is now 2 years and about 58 features ago.