If you can't show it, it isn't a product yet

Most technical founders I know can demo their product to me perfectly — on their laptop, in their environment, with their setup. 😅 And when I asked them to let me try it myself, there are suddenly twelve reasons why "it's not ready yet."

I'm not sure if this is a universal pattern, but I see it often enough to think it's worth talking about.

My idea is this: if you cannot show it, you are probably not building a product yet — you are just writing something in the repository. And three months can quietly disappear that way, without anyone outside ever actually touching what you built. 💡

Maybe the more useful question to ask early — before "how do we make it better" — is just: "how will we show this to the world?"