Lately, I ve noticed a massive trend in launch posts across Reddit, X, and Hacker News. Every second product starts with the exact same sentence: "I was a tired developer, so I scratched my own itch."
Is anyone else experiencing "founder-narrative fatigue"?
Personally, I ve never found building simple features like waitlists exhausting. It s just an email form. But I do think it s a terrible use of a Friday night when you could be coding your core product instead. That's why I launched before.run today to just abstract the boilerplate plumbing (Go + Next.js + PoW anti-spam) without the dramatic backstory.
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