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Ben!

@benshumaker_

I like startups, code, and design. cofounder @ vigilant.run

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biggest indicator of a mid company is spending tons of energy on things other than making their core product/service better

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It's annoying how often I make "obvious" mistakes against the startup playbook. There's a lot of guidelines to juggle, and it's deceptively hard to remember them all, all the time.

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Design debt it really similar to tech debt. You add a few features and suddenly you regret the whole design architecture.

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Startups are a lot harder than strategy games. Games give you immediate feedback. But at a startup, you can try things for weeks and still not know if it’s working.

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I think “Cursor for X” works in a bunch of domains. But the moat is still the base product. IDEs get a huge head start because you can fork VS code. “Cursor for design” is likely a great idea, but first step is making Figma 💀