Tools: Building in Public: How I Pivoted from Features to Validation 🚀

I spent months building features almost every day. Clean code. Real infra. Everything working. But I made a classic developer mistake:
I built first… and asked questions later. 🚨 As a developer, my default mode was: “Just add one more feature.” Technically solid. Business-wise? No real validation 😅 After ~8 months, I realized the problem wasn’t the code.
I was trying to validate: an e-commerce platform and my own internal system …all at the same time.
No focus = no signal. So instead of throwing everything away, I reframed it. I stopped thinking “product”
and started thinking “execution engine.” The admin panel + modules became my way to:
build → test → learn → kill fast 🧪 From now on, I’ll use this setup to: validate before scaling share what works (and what doesn’t) Less ego. More feedback. This isn’t a launch. It’s a reset. If you’re a dev who loves building but struggles with validation, you’re not alone. Building in public from here 🚀 Templates let you quickly answer FAQs or store snippets for re-use. Are you sure you want to ? It will become hidden in your post, but will still be visible via the comment's permalink. as well , this person and/or