I built an app that should've cost $50K and taken three months. Instead it took me a single weekend. Earlier this year I started a new events + media company called @TheShortlistNYC It's a platform for top operators to meet founders of the fastest-growing startups in NYC. We needed a way to handle hundreds of introduction requests every event. So I built an app on @Lovable. Attendees opt in for an intro. If the founder opts in too, an intro is mode. In the last few months, it's made over 500 introductions and helped place multiple roles. 3 years ago, a project like this would have required a PM, two engineers, a designers, 3 months of dev work, and $50K. Today I did it solo, while watching Netflix. I'm not an engineer. Every operator in tech needs to figure out what they can build in a weekend. The ones who do are going to have a 10x advantage.

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