Lessons from Building a Startup

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It’s one thing to write about entrepreneurship — it’s a whole ‘nother beast to do it.

In the past couple of days, I’ve been working on developing an MVP (minimal viable product) for my startup.

Once it’s up, I can’t wait to share it with you. But, until then — take my word for it: this is harder than I thought it’d be.

No-Code’s Great but Code is Better

No-code is incredible. I can build a website in minutes. Products I could once only dream of, I now can realize.

That said, it doesn’t take long to push it to its limits.

Sometimes, the no-code platform will actually have the capabilities to do what you want it to. However, they expect you to cough up quite a bit of cash.

But I don’t even have users yet!

The truth is that by going down the no-code path, you are giving up a lot of control. You need permission.

Code is permissionless — you simply build and put it to work.

In a way, though, so is no-code. Before, there was an excuse: I can’t code! Now, there just isn’t. Go build.

Obsessed

I spent a couple of hours last night trying to work out a new functionality for the product. I went…