[ai_critic]

> Now that integrating Stripe takes five minutes, it feels like some builders are obsessing over revenue before they've validated value.

ZIRP is over and cash is again--as it always should've been--king.

There's no surer way of validating value than knowing people like your service enough to pay for it.

[LeanVibe]

If you’ve built something people truly can’t live without and are willing to pay for, that’s great. That’s real product-market fit. But what I often see is pricing added first, and then frustration when no one subscribes. That’s the part that feels off to me.

[ai_critic]

Why should it feel off? Like, sometimes the truth is that it's not a market fit. That's normal.