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Daniel Majer
@daniel-majer.github.io

Naval Ravikant on why founders should code from Day 1: “Web and mobile startups are so competitive right now. Assume that whatever you’re building, there’s a team of 2-4 hardcore hackers working 24/7 on something similar.” Speed matters.

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Nick
@studionick.bsky.social

I would tweak this to say “you should have someone who codes on your founding team” speed in product matter, but having rooms to sell in, or understanding how to market your solution, is the other side of the coin that is not coding focused.

ryinnovate.bsky.social
@ryinnovate.bsky.social

I taught myself how to code before we got our technical cofounder. We're replacing my codebase wholesale, but 1. It got us valuable customer testing and refined the vision 2. It makes understanding the problems conceptually so much easier, smoothing communications and driving realistic expectations

Daniel Majer
@daniel-majer.github.io

→ If you outsource product development, you’re stuck in a slow feedback loop: Submit to developers → Wait for changes → Repeat → At best, you’ll get 1-2 iteration cycles per day. → Meanwhile, the team coding in-house is iterating 20+ times a day.