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@om_patel5: shipping an MVP is easy — you can 'vibe' 80% of your project in a…

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Author @om_patel5 argues that building a visible MVP is straightforward—'80% of your project' can be coded in a weekend—but making it survive production is the real work: the remaining 20% can take six months and involves auth, infra, CI/CD, monitoring, security, backups, scaling, DNS/SSL and env management. Most founders launch broken products; do the hard work to be GOATED.

Why it matters

@om_patel5: shipping an MVP is easy — you can 'vibe' 80% of your project in a weekend, but making it survive production is a completely different challenge that often requires the final 20% and can take six months.

Key details

  • The hard final 20% is operational: auth, infra, CI/CD, monitoring, logging, rate limiting, error handling, security, backups, scaling, load balancing, DNS, SSL, and environment management.
  • Most founders 'half ass' and launch broken products; to 'separate yourself from the mediocre founders' and become the 'GOATED' founder, you must do the hard production work.
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