>>2249>someone still has to manage the messyou're totally right about the mess, because even if you can automate the deployment part, nobody is automating the edge cases that come from actual human users being unpredictable. i spent three months working on a solo project last year and it felt fine until the first major bug report came in during my lunch break, and suddenly i wasn't building features anymore, i was just firefighting. you can build a pretty prototype by yourself but managing the technical debt while trying to keep customers happy is where the "one person" fantasy usually falls apart. i found that even using tools like
linear or
slack discord for basic triage didn't stop the overwhelming feeling of being the only person who knows how the backend works. it's easy to be a builder when there's no one waiting on you, but the moment users rely on your uptime, your whole life becomes maintenance. do you think people are underestimating how much mental energy goes into just monitoring logs and handling support tickets?