Everyone shows their build stack.
Every founder shows their build stack. Xcode, Supabase, Vercel, the usual. Nobody shows the stack that comes before the build, and that is the one that decides whether any of the rest is worth setting up.
My pre-code stack is not tools. It is nine decisions. Market, buyer, pain, positioning, scope, pricing, demand, launch, exports. I answer them in sequence before I open the editor, because building is now the cheap part and deciding what to build is the expensive part.
The math is simple. The decisions cost me an afternoon and about $5 to run through with real data. The build I would have shipped without them costs weeks, and if the buyer or the price was wrong, all of it goes in the bin. A $5 decision that stops a $5k build you would have thrown away is the best trade there is.
If you are dev-first vibe coder: Stop building the wrong thing. Make 9 decisions before you open Cursor.
Here is how I handle it now. Before I write a line of code, ShipFit forces nine decisions in sequence: market, buyer, pain, positioning, scope, pricing, demand, launch, and exports. Each one is grounded in real data, real competitor sites, sourced prices, and real reviews, not a confident AI guess. You walk out with a named buyer and their willingness to pay, a defensible price, an MVP scoped to the real hypothesis, a launch plan, and config files ready to paste into Cursor or Claude Code. Or you walk out with a kill verdict and a saved quarter. It starts at $5, with no card to try it.
And it is real data, not AI slop. Every competitor is a real site, every price has a source, every complaint comes from an actual review. A claim you can check beats a paragraph you cannot.
Try it at shipfit.ai. What do you decide before you build?
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