Why Did Pat Walls and His Roommate Start Delite?

About six months after a coding bootcamp, Pat Walls was a full-time software engineer on a roughly nine-to-four schedule. A roommate who ran a manufacturing business had an idea, and Walls, already building small side projects and looking for something real, joined immediately. They built Delite, software for wholesale orders, at night and on weekends. They never planned the selling. Because the roommate needed Delite, they treated the idea as validated and expected customers at launch. Nobody came. Walls then left the day job for demo calls in a coffee shop, and half the prospects missed the call. Delite already existed, so stopping felt impossible. He says that is where it began to fail.