You nailed right Most startups die because they optimize too much and have no real users

This is so true, scope creep is real when the client actively gets involved

And when that happens it’s better to move the contract to hourly rather having it fixed price

But you are also right about having a strong contract

“Scope creep is real when the client gets actively involved”

Or when there are multiple stakeholders involved. It’s a never ending stream of making the logo bigger, then reducing the size.

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Happy New Year Everyone Wishing Everyone a great a year ahead and great health

I want to go full into indie hacking and learn atleast a new language this year

Lastly I must say with the help of AI i can now finally develop good frontends

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I’m hacking on different side projects but currently I’m working on developing a platform for helping freelancers or small agencies understand aws costs and optimize their environments

Its been a pain point for a lot of the clients I work with helping them understand and optimize their aws costs

They might get a surprise 1000 dollar bill and won’t be able to understand why it happened or what incurred that costs

+1 on that Opus 4.5 is a game changer I have used to refactor and modernize one of my old react project using bootstrap, You have to be really precise when prompting and having solid CLAUDE.md works really well

That thought makes me excited and scared

I haven’t written any single line of code but i have been able to plan and come up with new ideas faster

I’m more of a product manager than a coder due to these new AI coding tools

Its even better when using claude code

What do you get with claude code that isn't already in cursor? I've only used it in cursor