Delegating as a technical startup founder

Intro In 2022 I spent 5 months building Bree. Bree helped people get their clothes altered from the comfort of their own home, it was yet another ‘Uber for X’ startup. It consisted the following apps: Customer app to order clothing alterations/repairs Merchant app to view and manage current alterations/repairs Ruby on rails api backend with postgres as the data store FWIW the main focus of this blog post is sharing the tradeoffs we encountered delegating compared to building our own technical solutions. What’s better for you might depend on your individual circumstances and the problem you’re trying to solve but in general I’d recommend delegating due the the reasons mentioned below. ...

December 25, 2025 · 3 min · Usama Saddiq