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- Choosing Ruby on Rails in 2025 as a deliberate competitive advantage for a solo founder.
- Avoiding enterprise 'slop' — ugly, slow, bloated software with poor documentation and sales calls.
- Rails enables fast shipping, constant iteration, and focus on product over plumbing through batteries-included design, strong third-party support, and convention over configuration.
- Speed compounds: quick feature implementation, bug fixes in minutes, and rapid iteration keep the founder ahead of competitors.
- Trailblazers set the pace; copycats follow but rarely innovate, and the founder can out-iterate them.
- Deliberate technical and cultural choices keep the business moving forward without unnecessary complexity or distractions.
- Rails is trusted as a framework built on real-world problems, allowing the founder to avoid chasing fads like microservices.