“So it wasn't even a product it wasn't an app it was just some back end I was playing around with It was a script on NestJS that I had built Eventually my friends invited me to homecoming I gave a few people the app to play around with And this was probably the first time that my high school friends cared about anything I was working on That was when I realized that there might actually be something here”

Build the Scrappy Backend Version Before Committing to a Full Product

Kishi did not build Social Wizard as an app initially. He wrote a quick NestJS script to solve his own problem, then handed it to friends at homecoming. The moment his peers actually cared about it was the signal he needed to polish and ship it properly.