“We really wanted to scope it down and launch something quickly and basic and I would say we achieved that and it like sort of worked when we launched — there was plenty of audio recordings getting lost and things like that.”

Ship the MVP with bugs — basic and broken beats polished and late

The April 2024 launch shipped with known reliability bugs — audio recordings actually getting lost — but Brett prioritized launching basic over launching polished. Much of what's in the product today looks like that scrappy v1; the alternative was missing the AI note-taking window entirely.