How To Go From Idea To Launching With Paying Customers In 8 Steps

Post by iampims » Fri, Sep 17, 2010, 10:22 PM UTC

Swizec wrote: post #10

jasonlbaptiste wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you're doing a developer heavy app that requires an API, the API documentation is insanely critical. I don't think I emphasized this enough. I've been a complete lunatic (in a good way) about the API docs, response calls, etc. You can have things ghetto at first I guess, but having detailed responses is very important.

Yes, being pedantic about responses and stuff that's flying around is vital. We can agree on that. But keeping an insanely good db documentation and a bunch of other stuff feels like overkill.

Post by brlewis » Sat, Sep 18, 2010, 2:59 AM UTC

jacquesm wrote: post #13

I think this post is great but the period after launch is seriously underexposed in all these 'how to start-up' articles. Typically, if you're a hands-on person with the right attitude sooner or later you'll figure this part out. Posts like this can help you ease the pain a bit but then what? You've just launched, you have a few paying customers (but not enough to be profitable), your initial press powder has been sh…