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Ship the call, not the demo
A working product beats a convincing prototype every time. Notes from shipping alone, end to end.
Prototypes are cheap and they lie. They hide the boring 80%: billing, edge cases, the 3am alert you will answer yourself.
Shipping alone means you own the whole stack and the whole consequence. That is the point — the constraint is what makes the product honest.
Demos convince. Calls ship. I would rather be reachable at 3am for something real than celebrated for something that never loaded.