Nobody wanted to go dark :-D each of us was an unpaid co-founder. Going dark looks very different from what was happening there - each of these guys just wanted

Nobody wanted to go dark :-D each of us was an unpaid co-founder. Going dark looks very different from what was happening there - each of these guys just wanted to ship code so we make money, ASAP. Well it wasn't trivial at that stage of our development. It became much more trivial once we and the market were happy with our product-market fit and at that point we indeed started with feature branches again. Now I'm working at a consultancy and since there's much more time for everything, we are doing feature branches during our MVP development too. But there's a stark difference in velocity this current team and the team I told you about achieved.