Well, the standard advice for getting off the ground with most endeavours is “Do things that don’t scale”. Obviously scaling is nice, but sometimes it’s cheaper

Well, the standard advice for getting off the ground with most endeavours is “Do things that don’t scale”. Obviously scaling is nice, but sometimes it’s cheaper and faster to brute force it and worry about the rest later. The unscalable thing is often like “buy it cheap, buy it twice” but it’s also often like “buy it cheap, only fix it if you use it enough that it becomes unsuitable”. Makers endorse both attitudes. Knowing when which applies is the challenging bit