Shipping 10x faster, part II

Continuing the thinking from the post yesterday about shipping 10x faster, I asked the question on Twitter to crowdsource more tips and hacks:

• Some indication of product-market fit. Because why build it if you don’t know if there’s potential for success? This could be say, a validated product in a saturated market. Or there’s paying customers. Some form of kw/customer research is helpful. Been wanting to not mess around with building something unique and instead just build something in a saturated market and validated product… simpler.
• Preferred/familiar tech stack. A starter app or boilerplate that gets you 90% of the way.
• Preset workflows/processes for the whole process.
• An undisturbed block of time. I see this as timeboxing the effort to a predetermined window of time, say 1-2 weeks, and organising life and chores beforehand to have that focus.
• Ruthlessly scoping a MVP small enough. A strong conviction to prioritising the single feature that truly matters to customers.
• Commitment to launch deadline, and a shipping pace/schedule, and the smart organisation of time, effort and other life commitments around it.
• A marketing stack would be helpful too. Places where you know you can launch to, or a community where customers hang out, or an existing audience.
• Basic marketing materials, swipe files and established workflows to make open graph images, logos, web graphics, etc. Now I use DALLE to generate logos and web graphics, svgrepo for SVG icons, and Sketch to design anything else. What I lack is a good copywriting swipe file to get good conversion copy up fast. This usually takes longer than I realise! I think copywriting frameworks like Pain-Agitate-Solution is a good tool too.
• Outsource some of the help. A virtual assistant to do the admin and time-consuming onerous stuff, or a customer support assistant.

What else?