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What's been your biggest technical bottleneck as a small startup lately?

6•devralcomp•1d ago
I'm doing some research to understand where small teams and early stage startups are getting stuck, especially around:

Launching landing pages quickly

Frontend performance issues

Building simple MVPs (e.g., with Next.js)

Adding AI agents or automation tools

If you’ve hit a wall in any of these areas (or others), I’d love to hear about it. What’s been unexpectedly hard or frustrating recently?

Appreciate any insights

trying to get a clearer view of where I can offer the most value.

Comments

tuyguntn•23h ago
when I was building my own side projects my biggest bottleneck was everything around the product.

   - polished landing page
   - SEO
   - marketing and branding materials
   - setting up social accounts: Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, LinkedIn 
   - preparing basic CI/CD to be able to quickly deploy changes
   - setting up ads across many ad services like Google, Facebook and etc,.
   - setting up CNAMEs, records for email deliverability
devralcomp•8h ago
Totally feel this, the non coding parts of building a product can be way more time consuming than expected.
incomingpain•20h ago
My hurdle on my startup is marketing.

I know for sure my threatfeed is high quality and worth the subscription. I know it functions; it's a working project to be sure.

Gumroad does all my payment processing and taxation stuff for me.

But i've gotten 100 views in a month and 0 customers :(

http://mapleintel.ca

devralcomp•8h ago
marketing is a real struggle specially for Tech Builders
ensemblehq•3h ago
I'd recommend learning about marketing basics and speaking to your target audience /ICP. From the website, it's not entirely clear what I would utilize the threatfeed to help protect my network and what are the benefits of using your threatfeed vs others.
XCSme•19h ago
Usually the problem is when collaborating with other people, it's hard to give them access to stuff and track what they can access, to make sure collaboration works ok (e.g. many tools don't support 2 people editing the same content with conflict resolution).
devralcomp•8h ago
Absolutely agree, access control and real-time collaboration are huge pain points

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