virattt: engineers pick hard, novel projects; founders pick what customers want
virattt · x · 2026-09-29
AI tooling founder virattt sums up how his project selection criteria flipped: as an engineer he chose projects for being hard, novel, and elegant; as a founder, the only filter is whether the customer actually wants it.
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