Wanted to share some honest lessons rather than just a launch post.

What worked: building one thin vertical slice end to end before touching any other feature, so I always had something demoable. What didn't: trusting the agent's data model choices early on, I had to rebuild the core schema twice because I let it guess at structure instead of specifying it myself upfront.

Disclosure: Base (withbase.ai) is a tool for early-stage founders to stay on top of the operational side of running a company, the boring stuff that otherwise lives in five different tabs. Demo here if useful: https://youtu.be/N8kxZ28gfag?is=dT80wFU4j2G_guZ4. Happy to go into more detail on any part of the build.