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Chapter 06 / 9 min

Building the smallest thing that works

Do it by hand first, automate what you did, and keep the whole build under two weeks.


The first version of your service should be embarrassing to describe and impossible to argue with. One input, one output, one place it lands. If you cannot draw it on a napkin, it is too big for a first build.

Manual first, always

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