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Timing is everything.
It goes without saying that timing gives every startup the first-mover advantage.
Of course, thereβs no right formula to determine the right timing but what you can do is keep a few things in mind.
For instance:
3.β β What exactly does the maintenance retainer cover that I cannot monitor myself with a free status page and a basic alerting tool?
If the agency gets uncomfortable with those questions, that tells you more than the proposal ever will.
A founder handed me an $80K proposal from an AI dev agency yesterday.
4 line items were just renamed open-source wrappers.
We sat down and went through it line by line.
That is a different sentence with a very different outcome.
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Most content about vibe coding is written by people who have never shipped a product with it.
I talk to the founders who actually do. Here is what they are building.
The ones who do not understand it are building demos they will have to rebuild from scratch in six months.
The $4.7B number is real. The revolution is real. But the revolution is not "anyone can build software now." The revolution is "anyone can validate an idea now."