01 — Challenge
Your idea hasn’t met a real user
The concept is promising but unproven, and you don’t want to bet the full budget before anyone has tried it. The most expensive mistake in software is building the wrong thing thoroughly. You need real feedback before the big decisions lock in.
0102 — Challenge
Planning meetings, but nothing ships
The feature list grows every planning meeting, but nothing has actually shipped. Investors and stakeholders want something they can click, not another slide deck — and every week spent debating scope is a week without real user feedback.
0203 — Challenge
Fast usually means a rewrite later
The quotes you’ve seen run for months before anyone can try the product. The faster options worry you more: building quickly usually means throwaway code you’ll pay to rebuild the moment the idea starts working.
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