Then a potential pilot customer opened the same link from a coffee shop in Edinburgh, watched a spinner turn for three seconds, and closed the tab.

What you likely have not added up is the token burn on every bug-fix loop that went nowhere, the credits lost to configuration failures the platform never flagged, and the infrastructure bill you will face the morning you decide to leave.

Your app accepts it, hands it to a background worker, and returns a cheerful "we're on it." Two minutes later your cloud host idles the server down.

Your managed database platform just changed its pricing, locked a feature you depend on, or handed you terms that threaten your runway.

But someone in a Slack thread has started asking whether you should migrate before things get serious — and now you are not sure whether that advice is wisdom or noise.

Founders who skip a defined migration sequence discover their secrets, their architecture gaps, and their untested edge cases all at once, in front of the first real user.