I agree with all of this except the one week thing.<p>But the thing is, these deadlines were self-imposed. It wasn&#x27;t like someone else was imminently about to release a similar app and they had to race to get it working. At least spend the time to get it working and fully-functional before really shopping it around. Rather they wanted to churn out some half-baked, random &quot;good sounding&quot; idea and then when they got funding race to make it work.<p>In my experience when I&#x27;m building an app or something, I learn a lot about what features make sense and what&#x27;s going to be really hard to implement while building it out privately or with a small team. I&#x2F;we address those issues and look for solutions or other ways around and aren&#x27;t on a schedule to ship some product and hire some backend database developer to fill some huge knowledge&#x2F;experience gap on short notice.<p>Of course hindsight is 20&#x2F;20, but I think not jumping the gun like this should be good business practice.<p>Really I see no reason why someone had to quit their job for something that wasn&#x27;t even functional. If it&#x27;s functional and getting some traction and has funding, great, quit your job and do it full time, imo.<p>As an aside and maybe an unpopular opinion, I really doubt the founder&#x27;s long-haired look was helping the brand&#x27;s perceived legitimacy. Though I don&#x27;t have a problem with it personally, I know the &quot;out there&quot; look can turn a lot of people off.