It doesn't matter

Pick something and start building. The FOMO isn’t real.

It doesn’t matter which model you use. The differences aren’t that big.

It doesn’t matter which tool you built the site with. Everyone copies everyone anyway, and your users have no idea.

It doesn’t matter that they released something new yesterday. You don’t have to try it right away.

It doesn’t matter that there’s another product and another announcement and another way of doing things. So what. The world doesn’t flip overnight because that guy said so.

It doesn’t matter that the guy on LinkedIn said something is dead. He’s an influencer in his own eyes, with 92 followers.

It doesn’t matter that there’s a new feature you “must use”, or that there’s a prompt enhancer and a prompt enrichment and a prompt compressor. It all amounts to nothing. I promise you that even the people saying it changed their world don’t feel the difference.

It doesn’t matter, all the people who talk and write posts and send links and speak at conferences and get interviewed on podcasts and run newsletters and announce that last night, while everyone was asleep, there was an earthquake and only they felt it.

What matters is doing. Building, experimenting, feeling it with your own hands.

I’ll always prefer someone who built an app all the way through, in whatever IDE, over someone with 18 open tabs of unfinished projects.

In job interviews, a working product will beat any blog post. In the long run, the ones who do win, and the ones who only talk get found out.

Don’t forget what matters. Don’t get blinded by words and talk, and remember what the goal is. So just pick something and start building. Let go of the FOMO, it doesn’t exist.

This post started as a LinkedIn post.