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Harvey He
Harvey He

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Your demo isn't a product yet - and knowing that earlier would've saved me months

A demo is meant to impress. A product is meant to be delivered. They feel like the same thing when you're new - they really aren't.

I spent ages polishing a demo that couldn't survive the moment someone opened it: broken onboarding, no way to pay, no instructions.

The lesson that snapped me out of it: decide the ONE job your thing does, then make that one path work end-to-end - demo, deploy, checkout, hand-off. Everything else is a "maybe later" list.

That mindset shift plus my pre-ship checklist became a starter kit I wished I'd had.

Demo looks amazing but feels fragile? This is the reframe: https://www.creem.io/payment/prod_2Sc2F2dJq8BV5PUkQ3APrH

(Impress later. Deliver first.)

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