Ishaan Kapoor

Your first 10 users won't come from a launch. They'll come from you personally dragging them in one at a time.

DMs, replies, helping in communities, being genuinely useful before you ask for anything. It doesn't scale, and that's exactly why it works at the start.

PSA: your Postgres can do way more than you think before you need anything fancier.

Full-text search, JSON queries, even basic queues. I've removed two services this month by just… using the database I already had.