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I once developed an app and a site before i really knew people would actually want to pay for it! rookie mistake! lesson learnt: don't make before you sell
https://healthio.notion.site/How-Cargo-Cult-Thinking-Nearly-...
Luckily it didn't get far - co-founding with a fantasist...
I once developed an app and a site before i really knew people would actually want to pay for it! rookie mistake! lesson learnt: don't make before you sell
I once developed an app and a site before i really knew people would actually want to pay for it! rookie mistake! lesson learnt: don't make before you sell
If you represent that you have a product, sell it, collect payment, and actually don't have a product at all, that could be fraud.
The work place was transformed into a reality show where you had groups of people trying to maneuver "up" in the system, by convincing the management that their way was better. No matter the discussion, they would back each other and support their own guys. As a group they would always win a discussion.
The company stagnated, but they were able to get new jobs and left before the long term impact was (finally) realized by the management
amazon.com it was supposed to be a folksy, communal, whole-earth inspired bookstore that would interact synergistically with actual book stores and the rest of the world. instead, we built a fucking monster that is awesome for consumers and a nightmare for almost everybody else. sorry.
Like Discogs, but for books?
EDIT: looks like Amazon bought that too: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33933791