I spent three weeks setting up a Kubernetes cluster and a complex event-driven architecture for a project that had exactly zero users. I told myself I was building for scale. In reality, I was just procrastinating on the hard part: building a feature people actually want to use.
When you work as an indie developer, your biggest enemy is not technical debt. It is the lack of a user base. Technical debt only matters if you have a product that survives long enough to be slowed down by it. Most indie projects die long before they hit the scale where a monolithic app becomes a problem.
The Trap of the 'Perfect' Stack
It is easy to get caught up in the hype. You see a thread on X or a blog post about a new framework that promises better type safety or faster build times. You spend a weekend migrating your state management because the new library feels cleaner.
But here is the truth: your users do not care if you use Redux, Zustand, or just a global object. They do not care if your backend is written in Go, Rust, or a basic Node.js script. They care if the button works and if the page loads.
