From experience, you are wasting time in the long-run if you aren't validating your ideas 'the hard way'.
By doing things that don't scale, you can move faster and actually solve the problems your customers have, rather than coming to them with what _you_ think the solution is.
By doing things that don't scale, you can move faster and actually solve the problems your customers have, rather than coming to them with what _you_ think the solution is.
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