Indie dev lesson: bolting every idea onto one app made it unmaintainable
therealdanvega · x · 2026-10-17
Dan Vega shares a key lesson: he bolted every new idea onto a single app, and over time it became harder to change and harder to use. Throwing away a year of work no longer hurts—the code was never the valuable part; what he learned building it was, and he gets to keep that.
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