tl;dr figure out what you want before committing all your resources. It might be just me and a terrible string of bad luck bad I've seen so many projects that

tl;dr figure out what you want before committing all your resources. It might be just me and a terrible string of bad luck bad I've seen so many projects that were kickstarted preemptively due to company politics or just management wanting to secure additional funding. By the time (usually between 3 to 9 months) business stakeholders came to an agreement on what they actually wanted the team developed so much technical debt that it's virtually impossible to untangle from all bad decisions for the rest of the development cycle. That's why I'm a huge advocate of starting simple, with a monolithic approach, to tread the water and have enough time to figure out the true objectives of the project first.