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What's been your biggest technical bottleneck as a small startup lately?

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Re: What's been your biggest technical bottleneck as a small startup lately?

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Iterating quickly. Basically you want to get something out there for people to comment on and play around with. But the engineering structure to get something out is not necessarily the structure to modify quickly. I once launched a recipe app. People wanted diet recipes, so I added calorie data. Turns out diet was low carb and specifically they wanted a list of things below 5g carbs or so. Then they hated the catego…

Totally get this fast launch ≠ easy iteration. Users teach you what they really want, and AI can help, but can’t replace that human feedback loop. But i loved how you keep responding to what your users want. Great Work keep going

Re: What's been your biggest technical bottleneck as a small startup lately?

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I’m working solo, nothing insane just a project management app.

Maybe I should have picked something simpler, because in order for the app to be useful, it has to actually work and solve the problems I’ve faced with other software.

And those are hard to implement. Doable, but takes time. Figuring out how stuff works, then getting it to work with my app, and finally ensuring I don’t break other stuff.

AI is somewhat helpful although it is only helpful in the initial stages of quick overviews. Actual implementing it just breaks or takes way longer.

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