Everything in a startup is a trade-off.

When faced with "build product" vs "prettify website" what would most people here do?

Seems like a lot of folks here are making assumptions about what's most important to a given startup at a given time by looking from the outside. I'm sure in some cases they're right but not necessarily all.

Admittedly for 'launching' at a conference I'd assume an informative website would be a priority but what do I know?