[popcorncowboy]

This is a sidebar shaking a fist at kids on the lawn, tired old man rant. I find it amusing/eye-twitch-y how much "git init && bootstrap <template>" is conflated with "startup" in the zeitgeist. All these entrepreneurs launching 12 startups in 12 months or 100 startups in 10 years or whatever the micro-saas startup factory literature encourages.

A startup is first and foremost, a business. And it's the business part that's hard/impossible/<insert startup failure rates>. The tech part isn't, and never really has been. It's wonderful that the Great Boilerplate Reduction Crusade continues apace (and AI is going to supercharge this), but it's (almost) orthogonal to building a business.

(I appreciate the title specifies "side project" - much closer to what these are for)

/sits down