Building fast is a moral position

Slow builds are expensive. Expensive builds die. Founders run out of energy. Companies run out of runway. Significant others run out of patience.

For a solo founder without institutional backing, time is the scarcest resource. A product that takes 18 months to get to market will be built by someone who spent those months paying rent, not building. That's not a failure of will. That's arithmetic.

AI-assisted development changed the math. We can now build in days or weeks what used to take months or years. I can deploy in days not because I'm cutting corners, but because the gap between idea and working software is shorter than it's ever been. The bottleneck has moved from "can I build this" to "should I build this."

The moral dimension is this: if you have something that genuinely helps people, and you can build it, why delay? It's a choice to let the problem persist longer than it has to.

Don’t fall in love with your products, fall in love with problems and solve them by building great products.