PMF is not just a product job. The engineering decisions you make in the first six months either compound your speed-to-learning or kill it.
teamindia
May 4, 2026
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Premature scaling, framework chasing, perfectionism, and over-instrumentation. We have seen each one kill a startup that had a great idea.
Boring tech, weekly demos, ruthless feature kills, and one engineer who owns “speed of learning” as a KPI.
If your stack cannot be re-deployed in 30 minutes, your PMF clock is ticking faster than your delivery clock. Fix that first.
teamindia writes about software engineering, hiring, and building distributed teams at Team In India.
A no-meeting product process built around six-week cycles, written shaping documents, and async demos. Field notes from running 30+ teams.
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