Days lost to boilerplate before meaningful development begins
Developers spend days on boilerplate setup and infrastructure configuration before writing any product-specific code. SiteGenie is a launch post in a crowded AI app-builder market addressing this pain, with established competitors including v0, Bolt, Lovable, and Replit.
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