When I was CTO I built the MVP and coded at first. Then after adding engineers we started shifting the architecture to their designs (because it's important to allow people to be creative and own things, right?) and I started feeling like a sub-par engineer, not creating sophisticated code as they did.
Well, turns out they overcomplicated things, focused on complex problems rather than end-to-end feature delivery, and waisted a lot of time rebuilding things that wete better (albite simpler) in my MVP.
For me, the takeaway is - trust yourself. You know best.
It's not the same lesson for everyone, some people are too controlling, but it seems you and I are closer to the other end of the spectrum.
When I was CTO I built the MVP and coded at first. Then after adding engineers we started shifting the architecture to their designs (because it's important to allow people to be creative and own things, right?) and I started feeling like a sub-par engineer, not creating sophisticated code as they did.
Well, turns out they overcomplicated things, focused on complex problems rather than end-to-end feature delivery, and waisted a lot of time rebuilding things that wete better (albite simpler) in my MVP.
For me, the takeaway is - trust yourself. You know best.
It's not the same lesson for everyone, some people are too controlling, but it seems you and I are closer to the other end of the spectrum.