🔴 The Trap
30 things that are genuinely easy to build and genuinely bad to ship. Nobody warns you about these, because the warning has to arrive before the afternoon where it works.
High build ease. High regret score. The code is not the hard part and never was — what you are signing up for is the maintenance, the liability, or the promise to keep something alive long after you stopped finding it interesting.
Sorted by how much it will cost you
high build ease · high regret01
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