Most of the people that ask what are you building? Rarely have ideas to build something of their own. The will build what you pitch them, and secretly build your idea. Since they are good at self Marketing the will act like it was their own.
One lesson I've learned as a founder.
Building the technology is often the easiest part.
Building trust, partnerships, distribution, and sustainable growth is where the real challenge begins.
That's where businesses are won or lost.
Unexpected Cloud bills can ruin your plans when building something. I have a bill right now from Google GCP indicating I owe $28 of Cloudrun usage when my project is hosted fully on Microsoft Azure. The only thing I use with GCP is Google O Auth.
I need to setup notifications when things break in production especially on weekends. Imagine when users start to think it was a hack. Not good at all for their engagement experience.
When i was configuring and setting up the DNS a few weeks go, I forgot to verify my primary email with Namecheap hosting. Hence the destination was refusing to connect. Almost thought it was DDos attack but just a domain suspension.