OP here - it's just (somehow, repeatedly) surprising the magnitude to which you can be wrong, even when it's just you and there's no pressure from anyone else t

OP here - it's just (somehow, repeatedly) surprising the magnitude to which you can be wrong, even when it's just you and there's no pressure from anyone else to get it done quickly and it's really just an honest guess. I see this over and over again with people I know bootstrapping projects - the over optimism I think is just part of being a builder. Sometimes in startup circles there seems to be this meme of how you should 'throw together a prototype of the tech in a week' being the standard way to get going with an idea. In practice though, seems so impossible that you could get anything even useful shaped built in that amount of time. For me when I get down to work on something, even just plumbing together the vague structure of an app takes longer than a week full time.