At ~$8K MRR solo, the highest-leverage first hire usually isn't who you think. The reasoning, the one caveat that flips it, and how to tell which case you're in.
Cross-posted from noflattery.com/decide — where I ran this exact question through a council of four different frontier models and let them argue it out.
You're a solo founder at ~$8K MRR. You have runway for exactly one full-time hire. Which role unlocks the most growth?
(A) a second engineer to ship features faster
(B) a marketer to build a real acquisition channel
(C) a customer-success / support hire to cut churn and free your time
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