What I Wish I Knew Before Automating My Business
Automation didn't just save time. It magnified every flaw I had first. The lessons I wish someone had told me before I started.
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Automation didn't just save time. It magnified every flaw I had first. The lessons I wish someone had told me before I started.
I undercharged for two years and called it being competitive. Here's the exact pricing mistake that quietly cost me thousands, and how I finally fixed it.
It wasn't a dramatic mistake. It was a quiet choice I made every day without noticing, and it cost me more than any loud failure ever did.
It wasn't a bad investment or a scam. It was something quieter and far more expensive — and almost nobody warns you about it.
Side hustles rarely fail because the idea was bad. They die at three predictable points in the first 90 days — here's where, and how to survive each one.
Expensive lessons in coupling and premature scaling. The five design decisions I'd undo in a heartbeat — and what I do instead now.
I split a small app into microservices to look serious. It cost us a year. Here's the architecture mistake I'd warn every engineer about.
Most refactors are vanity projects that never pay back. This one did — and the difference taught me when rewriting code is actually worth it.
Three days. One bug. The fix was a single character. Here's the full story and the debugging lessons I wish I'd learned before, not after.
Everyone says never rewrite. I did it anyway and lived to tell the tale. Here's what the second time around actually taught me.
I lost a $4,000 retainer because I trusted an AI output I should have checked. Here's the exact mistake and the rule I now never break.
A full year of using AI every single day. The hype faded fast, but a few habits stuck — and those are the ones worth keeping.
