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In my experience, developers burn months writing boilerplate, chasing config drift, and IaC before a single user arrives. The market rewards velocity, not heroics. Ship slower than your competitors and your idea dies, even if it's better.
Here’s what I'm doing: Use a production-grade monorepo starter that forces discipline, standardization, and speed. TurboRepo plus a unified stack. Next.js for web, NestJS for backend and Expo for native. This delivers predictable builds, consistent types, shared UI libraries, and zero-friction DX. The result: one mental model, one dependency graph, one build pipeline.
This structure eliminates 80% of early-stage chaos: mismatched TypeScript configs, duplicated components, fragmented API contracts, and slow local iterations. Shared packages consolidate types, UI primitives, and business logic. You stop gluing pieces together and start building business solutions.
Most developers still opt for scattered repos, mismatched stacks, and brittle hand-rolled infra. That choice kills momentum. The fastest teams centralize everything, standardize aggressively, and automate the boring work out of existence.
If you want leverage, the formula is: one repo, one toolchain, one source of truth. The devs who adopt this pattern dominate velocity metrics and out-ship teams twice their size.
This content originally appeared on DEV Community and was authored by Brandon
Brandon | Sciencx (2025-11-23T01:32:10+00:00) Stop Building Indie SaaS the Hard Way. Retrieved from https://www.scien.cx/2025/11/23/stop-building-indie-saas-the-hard-way/
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