The best teams deploy 208 times more than you.
Not because they are larger. Because they removed the part where humans break things.
Your deployment process is a nightmare.
You hold your breath. You pray nothing breaks. You push manually because it's "faster than automating."
It's not.
Every manual step is a loaded gun:
→ Forgot to run migrations? Production's down → Wrong env variable? Users see test data → Skipped a build step? 500 server error
You'll automate "when you have time." You won't.
You'll just keep stacking risk. Keep burning hours.
Your slow deployment is killing your learning speed. Every week you don't ship is a week you don't learn.
You don't need perfect CI/CD. You need one automated staging push this week.
Start there. Add a test. Add a rollback.
Repeat.
Fast, boring deployments mean your team can experiment.
Automate it and ship.