I'm Paul. I build AI products in domains I don't know yet — and I sell what I make. Every build is a bet that shipping is the fastest way to learn something real.
Validate the competitive premise first. Spent 20 hours building a web scraper that produces 9 results in 68 seconds. Asking Claude directly produces 50+ results in 3 seconds. The comparison should have happened on Day 1.
When your complex solution is worse than "just ask ChatGPT," you're building the wrong thing. Pivot or stop—don't optimize further.
Monday planning gaps cost days, not hours. Missing competitive analysis and TypeScript interface-first guidelines caused 6+ hours of preventable friction.