The infrastructure decisions in early-stage startups are brutal.
Most founders I know underestimate Postgres connection pooling
until it bites them at 10x scale. PgBouncer saved us twice.
Spending too long on the firmware. I almost ran out of runway. I should have cut features faster. And I should have built the firmware cross platform so I could run it my local machine. Every compile + flash loop took 2+ minutes.
