Measure the Cold Start Before the Demo
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An indie founder shipped a demo at 23:40 on a Sunday. The link went into a direct message five minutes later. The first request took thirty-eight seconds. The visitor closed the tab before the spinner stopped. Nothing was broken. The free host had gone to sleep. That is the whole failure mode: the…
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- 2026-10-17 06:00 · DEV Community — AI
Measure the Cold Start Before the Demo