wow, it's as if you just read my mind and wrote it down here. Do you live in Israel by any chance?
Ask HN: How do you stay focused on one idea?
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Re: Ask HN: How do you stay focused on one idea?
#22I am an entrepreneur and I have run into a similar situation a number of times ( I have about 2-3 partially complete apps lying dormant ). I think this is a problem you face when you haven't had a single successful product shipped. Sure, you might have built a few partially-complete apps, but you haven't shipped anything yet. So your brain starts playing tricks on you, you'll think that your next idea has a better shot at success and that's how you lose interest.
One way to overcome this is: When you have a new idea, 1) Come up with a bare minimum list of features. 2) Give yourself a week or two weeks time to finish it. 3) Once you are done release a free beta and get customer feedback.
The point of this whole exercise being to reduce the window of work to a short period in which you can stay focused. Think of it as some kind of a minimum viable product(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimum_viable_product).
Hope that helps.
Re: Ask HN: How do you stay focused on one idea?
#23wow, it's as if you just read my mind and wrote it down here. Do you live in Israel by any chance?
Same here
Re: Ask HN: How do you stay focused on one idea?
#241) pick a project large and difficult enough that you don't already know how to accomplish it. I certainly will not have fun if I already know how to accomplish the task before I've begun. 2) daily progress. It doesn't have to be consistently a huge amount of progress every day, but it should be enough progress that you could grab somebody and say "hey take a look at what I did today" and be able to show them some ne…
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