Buy off-the-shelf software instead of building custom systems. Commercial products cost a fraction of custom builds, come with support and training, and are already feature-rich. If a suitable product exists, buy it.
Most of the time I'm saying here is like, you know, buy it. If you can buy it, buy it. If there is a readily available commercially off-the-shelf solution for what you want, buy it. Do you want to build an inventory management system from scratch? Are you going to build an ERP system from scratch? If you can buy it, it's going to be feature-rich, it's going to be supported and maintained, it's going to provide training. Um, it's going to be great and it'd be a fraction of the cost of building it. So I'm, I'm always of an opinion here is that if you can buy it, buy it.
