While building a matrimonial platform recently, we hit a small but important decision: How should we capture height? Feet or centimetres?
Client’s suggestion was to give both options and let users choose. That’s a complex UI – I said
I proposed something different.
Why? Because the product wasn’t just for India. It was meant for cross-border matchmaking.
Recently, someone tried building an education platform using AI.
At first, it looked impressive. Features were coming in fast. Progress felt great.
But after a month, things changed. Every new update introduced more bugs than features.
The code started conflicting with itself. Lot of repeated codes. Timelines slipped. Control was lost.
Most business apps follow the same pattern: Add. Update. Delete. List.
And then comes the “list” screen with a data grid…which is often too basic to be useful.
No proper filtering, Limited sorting, Barely any control over data.
So what do users do? They export to Excel. If excel sheet make their workflow better then why should your product exist.
A friend told me he found a service offering website development for ₹500/month.
Sounds like a great deal, right? I told him not to go for it. Because here’s what usually happens with these models:
And the real cost shows up later:
I said “ You don’t save money.You just delay the expense.” He took the advice.
I see many early-stage non tech founders jumping straight to AWS or GCP.
Mostly because of “free credits.” Honestly, that’s a trap.
At that stage, you don’t have a scaling problem. You have a customer acquisition problem. A simple VPS is more than enough:
But cloud platforms make you think like you’re building for millions…when you don’t even have your first 100 users.
A year ago, someone bought a restaurant POS from CodeCanyon.
They came to me for one key addition: reports. Sounds simple.Until I looked at the code.
The UI looked premium…But the data layer was a mess.
And that’s when it became clear: Building proper reports would cost more than what they paid for the entire software.
