I realized that if it was so difficult for me to deploy, companies like WordPress would have massively benefited from having awesome deployment infrastructure.

We have established pathways for rapid prototyping and agile fielding, but the challenge remains in transitioning successful prototypes to full production and deployment.

When scaling innovations, it's important to balance between cooking up ideas and scaling them, as moving too fast can lead to failure.

Once you have a prototype and user interest, the next step is to build a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) that can be launched quickly, ideally within weeks.

It's important to quickly build and test ideas. If something doesn't work, it's better to kill it and start again rather than justifying its existence with additional features that may not address user needs.

Creating a website and bringing it online was terrifyingly difficult, requiring weeks of work to deploy state-of-the-art technology.

Start building your product now; don't wait for the perfect idea. Rapid iteration and learning from users are crucial for success in developing a dev tool.

During the ideation stage, the goal is to create a prototype quickly to demonstrate to users, even if it doesn't work perfectly.

Startup founders should act as forward deployed engineers, engaging directly with customers to gather feedback and iterate quickly on their products.