I Built 4 FastAPI Projects in 2 Weeks — Here's What I Wish I Knew Before Startin

<h1> What a "production-ready" FastAPI starter actually needs </h1> <p>Every FastAPI project I've started begins the same way: an hour of<br /> boilerplate before I write a single

<h2> The Lie We All Agreed To Tell Each Other </h2> <p>MVP. Minimum Viable Product. The word <em>minimum</em> is right there, doing nothing.</p> <p>Ask any founder how long their

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<p>Every new FastAPI project started the same way.</p> <p>Create folders.</p> <p>Set up configuration.</p> <p>Add environment variables.</p> <p>Configure Alembic.</p> <p>Copy

<blockquote> <p>Why I Built This</p> </blockquote> <p>Every Spring Boot project I started, I spent the first <strong>2–3 weeks</strong> building the exact same things:</p> <ul>

<p>Let's be real: the current AI coding workflow is tedious. </p> <p>You hit a bug. You copy your code. You tab out to ChatGPT/Claude. You paste it. You copy the fix. You paste it