when thinking about building products, I am now super suspicious if I have an idea that takes more than a few days (even hours!) to ship

anything more ambitious than that probably has a set of "stepping-stone" features that act as intermediate for validation and user acquisition

e.g. @clankfun started as a web page that nicely rendered the output of one Dune API call. launching this got enough attention that validated working on a bump feed, which got enough attention to build in trading, and so on and so on. each step reinforced the value for existing users whilst gaining a new set of users.  I was shipping nearly every day in the first few months, from day 1

mostly reading and building. 
prev: @clankfun, improbable, github, amazon. https://ntik.me

I’ve explored a few product ideas with Chat GPT and each time it provides 4-6 weeks as the minimum time to produce something that I can then get feedback on. Can’t imagine working on something for that period with zero input from customers