I would lean toward launching early rather than spending too much time building a waitlist. A waitlist can be useful for creating an initial audience, but it can also give founders a false sense of demand because signing up is very different from actually using the product. Real users expose things you simply can’t predict beforehand, where they…

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The issue is that AI often adds another layer to an otherwise simple task. If I have to review, correct, and approve an AI-generated result that would have taken me 30 seconds to do myself, the “automation” hasn’t really saved me anything. For me, the best AI features are almost invisible: they remove work rather than create another interface to manage.

This is the kind of question where production experience matters more than benchmark numbers. An MVP can look perfectly fine until you have real users, background jobs, backups, migrations, and unexpected traffic. I would be interested in the “month 3–6” experience: what started becoming painful only after the SaaS had real customers, and…

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There’s a big difference between an AI that can tell a customer what the store’s return policy says and one that can actually look up their order, check tracking, or understand what’s currently in their cart. I would be curious about the reliability side, though. E-commerce support has a lot of edge cases, and giving someone the wrong order…

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