I built a startup in 31 hours (SaaS)

I forgot to mention I used AI heavily to code fast: I use GitHub Copilot and my boilerplate ShipFast. Copilot already has an entire codebase with database models, API routes, etc.. so I type English and AI writes functional code.

0:00 Intro
0:28 Startup ideas
1:59 Shipping fast
6:53 Launch and 1st customer
8:30 Should I focus or move on?
9:35 Outro

[opuhvxj]

Typescript is definetely not a waste of time in a long run.

[timka]

People typing comments “correcting” him like he isn’t making a million a year right now

[kasper]

so what he's actually saying is: I am making millions and I am only using a fraction of my power.

[Pewpewz]

Not using TS will also wreck you one day. It’s actually quite easy once you learn it and, when you do, you’ll never use vanilla JS

[RazorShrk]

This is fine if you do exactly what you do, which is one-off solo projects. If you want your thing to scale at all, it will crumble.

[PatrickThurmond]

The only part I cringe at is not using git branches. It isn't that hard man.

[czcyudm]

Many comments here are misunderstanding what he's saying. The title of this video focuses on the fact that he has created 31 startups. From a long run perspective, TypeScript is obviously better than JavaScript, but if we focus on startups, what he's talking about is not 'technology' but the meaning of saving time and energy to focus on 'business'. Actuallaly he made more than $40, 000 a month. 'Long run' also ultimately means that the startup must survive in order to go the distance. No matter how fast you make it or how good the performance is, if the customers don't like it, then it's just garbage.

[Jackson_Zheng]

What people never see is perspective.
It's never about what is right.
Its about what is right...for this part of your journey.
Sticking to a simple tech stack will allow you to ship faster, experiment more and ultimately, make ENOUGH money to give you a longer runway.
Once you get the longer runway, whether it be 1 year, 2 years or 5 years, at that point you can invest more time and effort to build out a stronger foundation and reach for a more ambitious goal.

But without the income at first, you're not gonna have the funds and the time to work on bigger projects.

[tanotive]

This mentality is more than fine for individuals who want to make money fast, hence you can move fast as a one-man start-up and earn that cheddar. However, this doesn't scale with groups of people.

Those guard rails are there to mitigate mistakes that a team will undoubtedly make (I've worked at a company where they didn't do all of this except for the new tech, and it was hell and everything was painfully slow). Plus I'm a big fan of unit tests if you have to write some hairy code (Anything with b-trees or some crazy data structures that's hard to get right the first time).

[JoelFunk]

I agree with this approach for shipping an early product as fast as possible, but like others have pointed out you need to implement better practices as you scale or risk loosing your customers due to instability.

[dandogamer]

Well you and DHH are both making millions and share the view points it's time I tried this mentality :)

[ryanvelbon]

Another 1 I'd add to the list is:

I don't build decoupled systems for MVPs. Monolith is the way to go.

[tntg]

Only react developers brag about not using typescripts as if it was a burden.
It's like saying I drive my car with no seat belt to get to places faster

[ofadiman]

I also don't test my code, high five 🙏

[Zxcfjsksjfkfndns]

I don’t believe you didn’t test you code. If you didn’t test, how would you know your code is running correctly.

[merlindru]

All of this is fine except for typescript tbh. Even for small scripts it speeds me up, let alone apps, because I get intellisense etc. If you type your backend routes, you can use those in the frontend and know what to expect from the backend

[gggedr]

Okay, I have understanding for tests, techstack, etc.. but not javascript:

[lokaleten]

do you not afraid found bugs on your webapp? no testing is crazy

[jackfull]

Now show me a saas you’ve built that’s successful

[guyhaume]

I don't see the benefit of not using typescript? Does it slow you down? Are you using jsdocs instead?