Nahum: Developers ship faster by recycling previous codebases and UI
Julian Nahum · How I Built It: $37K/Month Notion App · Nov 7, 2024 · at 4:37
Solopreneur Julian Nahum explains to Pat Walls how copying boilerplate and UI from previous software projects dramatically accelerates development velocity for new ideas.
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“The more you build, I think the faster it is to build. Now, you know, like every time I'm starting a new project, I can just copy the code base from the previous project, keep all the UI and that kind of things. And I can just focus on the core logic and the value that I want to bring to the users. So you get faster every time.”
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