Code Isn't Product: The Three Ingredients Between Demos and Revenue
Rich Mironov's shopping list for founders who confuse "we shipped it" with "we earn from it." Beneath runnable code sits commercially deployable software: SRE, security, billing, support, and AI-specific drift monitoring. Even that is not revenue-ready product, which needs pricing, packaging, and go-to-market work on top. Vibe-coding a demo in an afternoon is impressive; monetizing it has always been the slow part.