The Graveyard of Perfect Apps We all have a ~/projects folder filled with half-finished dreams. Usually, the code isn’t broken. The idea isn’t bad. The project died because you ran out of steam. You spent 3 weeks building the scaffolding and 0 days building the actual value.

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Solo developers waste momentum building non-essential features before validating their product. Five common MVP time-sinks to cut immediately: dark mode (doubles CSS work), edit profile pages (no users yet), complex auth flows (pick one method), custom admin dashboards (use DB console instead), and automated billing upgrade/downgrade logic (handle manually until you have revenue). The core principle is to ship only the feature that directly solves the user's primary pain point — the 'core loop' — and defer everything else.

Stop Building Settings Pages: A Guide to Ruthless MVP Scoping