2026-09-23·by Sijie Wang#standmeet#product

dont-repeat-myself

Don't make me repeat myself

Parent: motivation

The sharpest, most concrete pain — and the strongest evidence the product is real. An articulated thinker pays a steep cost being asked the same thing over and over:

  • a job search means telling the same story 5–15 times across 30–50 interviews; each retelling burns energy
  • an indie hacker gets asked "how do you choose your stack?" again and again
  • a journalist wants the same quote
  • a friend asks "what have you been up to?"

The tell: when a mock interview tried to make Sijie re-explain his AI-coding critique, his reaction was "I don't want to repeat myself" — that reflex is the product thesis. Every repeated explanation StandMeet absorbs = real time reclaimed.

By surface: recruiters pre-read then ask better follow-ups; indie hackers learn the pattern; journalists get an articulate quote; friends get a current-state update.

about this entry

One of sijie's wiki entries. The AI on this site is grounded in the same corpus and answers in sijie's voice, with citations back to entries like this one — answering costs sijie money, so it waits behind a code: enter an access code →