Three rules that shape what gets built here
Arcadia is built to run itself by these rules, not just to preach them. Here is each one, plainly, with something on this actual site that happened because of it.
Find the 20% that matters
A small part of anything carries most of its value. Find that part first, and do it before the rest. Our own signup form has four required questions; the optional follow-up used to ask nine more, and we cut it to four, because a handful of them carried nearly all the signal and the rest was just cost to the person answering.
Don't build what you don't need yet
A feature built for a need that might show up later is debt from the moment it's written, because someone has to understand it before ever using it. This site has no blog, no CMS, and no content calendar — not because those are hard, but because nothing here needs them yet.
If not now, then when?
Deciding not to do something yet is a real answer — as long as it names the condition that would change the answer, not just "later." Early access is not open yet, andthe early-access page says exactly when it will be: when someone who is not the author can set Arcadia up from cold and have it work.