Camus and the Absurdity of Shipping Products

Camus asked whether life is absurd whether meaning is impossible.

His answer wasn’t despair. It was simple: accept the absurdity, then act anyway.

That’s the startup founder’s dilemma. You’re building something that might not matter. Most products die. Markets shift. Users leave. And still, you show up and build.

The absurdity is beautiful.

There’s no such thing as “guaranteed success.” So instead, you:

• Build something you believe in
• Accept it might fail
• Ship it anyway

That’s not irrational. It’s honest.

At Vestcodes, I’m building tools knowing they might go nowhere. And building with that knowledge changes everything. It strips away pretense.

You don’t need permission from the market. You don’t need certainty. You just need to say: this matters to me and do the work.

Waiting for certainty is worse than building and failing.

Embrace the absurd.
Build anyway.