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Ship A Full App In 5 Minutes, Not 5 Weekends
Every founder has a graveyard. Half-finished apps, abandoned prototypes, that "killer tool" you vibe-coded over a weekend and never touched again. Mariam Hakobyan, Co-Founder and CEO of Softr, thinks she knows exactly why those projects keep dying, and it is not your discipline. It is the chains. AI handed everyone a hammer and called them a carpenter, but it never removed the hard part. It just moved the complexity onto you: the authentication, the permissions, the security, the thousand boring edge cases that make a toy into a tool people can actually log into.
Mariam is an engineer turned…
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