The Long Game
A year of solo building is not a milestone — it is what happens when the builder keeps showing up.
#reality
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The First Bug Report
A failing test is the machine checking its own work. The first bug report is the project meeting someone who never had the context that built it.
The Money Question
Most repos are the gym, not a startup — built to learn, not earn. But some quietly stopped being either.
90% of solo building:
- Debugging alone
- Reading stack traces
- Rewriting the same function
- Staring at logs
10%:
- Shipping
That 10% makes the rest worth it.
Friday night.
No users waiting.
No deadline.
No one watching.
Still shipped.
That's not discipline.
That's just how some people build.
The blockers disappear when you're solo.
No design to wait for.
No backend to blame.
No approval to chase.
What remains is uncomfortable.
What remains is clear.