Vibe coding may deliver a useful prototype but it's not a way to build a sustainable product. Technical skills remain key to succeed with digital product development.| The Pre-Pre-Seed
CreatorHunter story is not a vibe-coded product success many AI enthusiasts want it to be. It's not remotely as rosy as it was made to look. Yet, we can still learn a lot from it.| pawelbrodzinski.substack.com
Early focus on growth limits exploration and shortens the runway. It's a kiss of death for many early-stage startups.| pawelbrodzinski.substack.com
It's about a journey, not a destination. Building a startup is exploration and not following a pre-planned route. Even if we make such stories in retrospect.| The Pre-Pre-Seed
The single most critical advice for founders? Build less. The single most useful leverage to achieve that? Overconstrain your budget.| The Pre-Pre-Seed
Product-Market Fit remains as essential for a startup now as it was a decade ago. AI has changed many product aspects, but the basic idea is as useful as ever.| The Pre-Pre-Seed
As useful as it contextually is, founders' love for their ideas is a costly trade-off. A trusted challenger can help to see when it's a good time to give up.| The Pre-Pre-Seed
Vibe coding makes early prototyping much more viable and has its role within desirability testing. Its impact on broader product validation remains limited.| The Pre-Pre-Seed
Don't listen to investors' "Don't screw up a culture" advice. Their expectations of rapid growth render such a goal impossible to reach.| The Pre-Pre-Seed
The traditional VC model is increasingly exclusive, with AI startups dominating investor interest. This change will push many entrepreneurs to embrace bootstrapping.| The Pre-Pre-Seed
Why Lovable's soaring revenues may be a case for vanity metrics 2.0 and what we should look at beyond mere top-line growth.| The Pre-Pre-Seed
Focusing on outliers may not build another tech giant, but that's where most business operate and where survival rate is higher.| The Pre-Pre-Seed
A common advice is that startups need technical co-founders. Let's consider whether it is really the only/the best way and why it is so.| The Pre-Pre-Seed
Successful digital products happen at the intersection of three distinct skill sets: subject matter expertise, product development, and technology/code.| The Pre-Pre-Seed
Validation plays a pivotal part in famous startup success stories. If we consider the data, we should rather focus on effective invalidation.| The Pre-Pre-Seed
Almost every time I read a story about early-stage product failure the reasons are similar. The sad part? They are also largely avoidable.| The Pre-Pre-Seed
The climate for early-stage startups is unfavorable, which makes choosing the right people to help more important than ever.| pawelbrodzinski.substack.com
The transition from the dream to a funded endeavor is the toughest and (typically) lethal| pawelbrodzinski.substack.com
Vibe coding: It promises digital products from plain English, but fails to deliver. Not for the reasons people think.| pawelbrodzinski.substack.com