Common Shipping Mistakes

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// Simple feature flag implementation for rapid iteration
const FEATURE_FLAGS = {
  newAIModel: {
    enabled: process.env.NEW_AI_MODEL === 'true',
    rolloutPercentage: 10, // Start with 10% of users
    allowlist: ['user_123', 'user_456'], // Beta testers
  },
  experimentalUI: {
    enabled: true,
    rolloutPercentage: 50,
    allowlist: [],
  },

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// Simple feature flag implementation to ship incrementally
import { createClient } from '@vercel/edge-config';

interface FeatureFlags {
  newChatUI: boolean;
  aiSuggestions: boolean;
  betaExport: boolean;
}

const edgeConfig = createClient(process.env.EDGE_CONFIG);

export async function getFeatureFlags(userId: string): Promise<FeatureFlags> {

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// Track what matters: user intent and success, not pageviews
import { track } from '@segment/analytics-next';

// Anti-pattern: tracking everything
// track('page_view', { page: '/dashboard' }); // Vanity metric

// Better: track user intent and outcomes
interface UserJourneyEvent {
  intent: 'create' | 'edit' | 'share' | 'export';
  target: string;
  success: boolean;
  timeToComplete?: number;

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// Simple in-app feedback - ship in 2 hours, not 2 weeks
import { useState } from 'react';

// Don't build a full feedback system - start with this
export function QuickFeedback({ featureId }: { featureId: string }) {
  const [submitted, setSubmitted] = useState(false);
  
  const sendFeedback = async (rating: 'positive' | 'negative') => {
    // Just post to Slack - no database, no dashboard needed yet
    await fetch('/api/feedback', {
      method: 'POST',
      body: JSON.stringify({

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// Minimal monitoring setup - know if things break without over-engineering
import { Sentry } from '@sentry/nextjs';

// 1. Error tracking - know when things break
Sentry.init({
  dsn: process.env.SENTRY_DSN,
  tracesSampleRate: 0.1, // Don't over-monitor, 10% is enough to start
  beforeSend(event) {
    // Filter noise - only alert on real problems
    if (event.exception?.values?.[0]?.type === 'ChunkLoadError') {
      return null; // Ignore common false positives
    }