Ship Fast, Fix Later

Move fast and build things. Perfection is the enemy of shipping.

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Startup Mode CLAUDE.md

Priority: SPEED

  • Ship MVP first, optimize later
  • Good enough > perfect
  • Copy-paste is fine for prototyping
  • Refactor when it hurts, not before

Stack Decisions

  • Whatever gets us to market fastest
  • Use managed services (Supabase, Vercel, Stripe)
  • No custom auth - use OAuth providers
  • No custom email - use Resend or similar
  • No custom file storage - use S3/Supabase storage

Development Flow

  1. Write the feature
  2. Manual test it
  3. Ship it
  4. Add tests if it breaks twice
  5. Refactor if we touch it 3+ times

Code Rules (few)

  • Working > clean
  • TypeScript for type safety (but any is fine sometimes)
  • No premature optimization
  • Comments only for WHY, never WHAT
  • If you are spending more than 30 min on something, ask for help

Deploy

  • Push to main = deploy to prod
  • Feature flags for risky stuff
  • Rollback plan: revert the commit
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