startup-cto-skills

Review startup product architecture for correctness, simplicity, scaling path, data model, API boundaries, reliability, security, observability, and operational risk.

Make build-versus-buy decisions for startup infrastructure, including auth, billing, email, search, AI, CRM, analytics, support, storage, observability, and compliance tooling.

Build a technical hiring plan for early-stage startups, including role definition, founder bottleneck, contractor versus employee, interview loop, trial project, scorecard, and onboarding plan.

Audit startup launch readiness across product flows, onboarding, payments, analytics, support, monitoring, legal pages, security, rollback, and founder operating checklist.

Scope an MVP for founders and indie hackers by narrowing user, painful workflow, must-have features, launch criteria, learning goals, and cut lines. Use when a startup idea is too broad or unfocused.

Create a practical startup security baseline covering secrets, authentication, authorization, backups, logging, dependency updates, access control, incident response, and customer trust.

Practical CTO replacement workflow for founders and indie hackers. Use for MVP scoping, product architecture, tech-stack selection, build-vs-buy decisions, hiring plans, security baselines, launch readiness, engineering roadmaps, and investor-facing technical explanations.

Choose a pragmatic startup tech stack based on team skill, product type, AI needs, data sensitivity, speed, cost, deployment path, integrations, and migration risk.