Indie dev mocks $83 MRR obsession: performance over profit
tibo_maker · x · 2026-08-20
An indie developer satirizes their own obsession with technical perfection—rewriting everything in Next.js to achieve 100 Lighthouse scores—while generating only $83 in MRR. The post contrasts this engineering focus with a META employee's $500k salary, highlighting the common indie dev trap of prioritizing code quality over business value.
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