Every week a founder DMs me the same question: "Should I build my React Native app from scratch or buy a template?" Here's the framework I use to answer it, plus the five wrong assumptions that make the debate louder than it needs to be. TL;DR Differentiation lives in the product (AI pipeline, marketplace mechanics, workflow)? Buy a template and spend your engineering budget on the differentiation. Differentiation lives in the infrastructure (custom protocol, native aud...