What Should You Focus On When You Can Build Everything Yourself?
1. AI expands the scope of what individuals can create
AI and agents broaden the range of products one person can implement alone.
- In just a few weeks, the author launched the design system Vlak, Bureau, a collaborative space where people and AI work together, and the digital workbook The New Standard.
- He personally implemented everything from the frontend to the backend, handling accounts, permissions, and agent tasks.
- It is important to distinguish between shortened implementation time and the time spent accumulating ideas.
- The research and writing behind the workbook had already taken years.
2. As what you can build increases, the completion criteria become higher
The expansion of production capability also increases workload and the expectations you place on yourself.
- What once would have felt finished now reveals the next feature.
- It becomes difficult to distinguish between improvements that actually add value and work that is merely added because it is possible.
- Even after implementation, the work of understanding and taking responsibility for the result remains.
- While dealing with performance and maintenance, the points where other specialists are needed become clearer.
3. After implementation ability comes the need for a reason customers should choose it
The author believes that products whose technical feasibility is already established should invest more in ways to reach customers.
- Competitors include not only other startups but also tools customers build themselves.
- A working demo alone cannot prove continued use or willingness to pay.
- It is necessary to test channels such as partnerships, communities, and integrations with work tools to confirm the paths through which customers come and stay.
