You are optimizing the wrong thing.
Most tech founders are building a beautiful corpse.
You spend 4 hours on a design system. Your onboarding flow has a 70% drop-off rate.
You debate database schemas. You haven't talked to a customer in 2 weeks.
You refactor for clean code. Your competitor just shipped the feature your users asked for.
Just usual tech used as procrastination tools.
Outcomes that matter:
→ Customer acquisition
→ Revenue growth
→ Product-market fit
→ User retention
Outcomes that do not matter (yet):
→ Perfect code → Beautiful architecture → Scalability to 1M users → Tech stack trends
You only get to optimize for perfection after you have customers.
Before customers? Optimize for survival.
Tell me I am wrong.