Startups And Code by John Mann

Startups And Code by John Mann

Consultants Have All the Answers. They Just Won't Give You the Code.

Great, you have a 40-slide report on exactly how much your company sucks. Now what?

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John Mann
Aug 21, 2026
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Hi all. This week is more of a rant rather than a post. I’ve meet with too many founders recently who have vibe coded something, got stuck, and then reached out to a consultant that provided them with a slide deck of how they sucked and need to hire an engineer, and that cost them over 10k to get that feedback with nothing to show for it except a debt…

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