The Hidden Cost of Rewriting: Time vs. Templates

The price nobody budgets for

Three rewrites from zero will eat two months of a solo build. Most of that cost shows up as context switches, not as line items. The "from-scratch" crowd quotes a price in components shipped. The real price is in the evenings you spent learning what you didn't yet know you needed.

I've done both, twice. Here is the time accounting, in evenings, not dollars.

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