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Deploying early saves startups more often than a seed round

πŸš€ Deploy early saves startups more often than a seed round.

I have a friend who has been building his startup for three months already.

He showed me a demo on his laptop one and a half months ago β€” a real technical solution, everything looks nice, and he can demo it perfectly.

But when I ask:β€œOkay, how can I test it? Just try it myself to understand if it works?”— it turns out I cannot.

The funny thing is, it only works on his laptop.

And this is a super typical problem.

It’s not only him β€” most engineers I know think and act like this.

They focus so much on building the solution exactly how they see it, that they forget one simple thing:

it must be valuable for others, not only for them.

If you cannot show it, you are not building a product.

You are just writing something in the repository.

Deploy early means one thing:

πŸ’‘ before you write code or build a feature, your result should already be something that can be shown to the world.

Even if it’s just β€œHello World.”

It sounds stupid, but it saves you.

It forces you to focus not on the code, but on the user and the impact β€” even before you start building anything. It stops a technical founder from running away into code and disconnecting from reality.

A small step into production is always a huge step toward the right product.

Before thinking β€œwe need to make it perfect,” ask yourself: β€œhow will we show this to the world?” 🌍



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