I legit don’t understand what these blog posts hope to accomplish.
Don’t let that slow you down. Just launch the damn blog post and let your readers tell you what you should hope to accomplish.
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#22In case you were wondering, the skier dropped his backpack and was able to get away from the bear
https://abc11.com/bear-chases-skier-romania-skiing-brown-cha...
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#23I'd much rather see these sorts of posts as flow charts, with lots of If/Then functions along the way. For example:
- Are you entering a regulated market with unbendable safety standards? If yes, take time to get it right. If not, proceed faster.
- Do you need to hit the next milestone fast to get more money. If so, launch rapidly with what you've got. If not, consider taking more time to get it right
Individual anecdotes are often charming and sometimes inspiring. But with so many decision points, a series of "succeed like me" single-example posts, all with different messages, start to blur.
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#24> worrying about scalability before having a single user
While you don’t want to do something really dumb that’s hard to get out of from day 1, I can’t agree more. Last year I was asked to help with an open source medical devices project for Covid, and when the guy writing the infrastructure said he had a microservices design in place I took that as a queue to exit the project. They hadn’t even validated that people needed what they thought they should build, and here was a guy about to do a ton of work for scale that likely never came.
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#25Ah yes this discussion. As always, I will chime in saying what I always say. While it's true that you need to begin the iteration process with real customers sooner rather than later, you still have to actually build something for them to use. This is still going to be very hard work. Yes, don't build features nobody has asked for yet, but do completely deliver on at least one core feature that actually makes people…
I've recently started thinking of businesses in similar terms to core game loops. Deep in the guts of every successful business there is one (or more) loops that keep the rest going. When I next try something i'll start with the loop.
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#26To quote the splash page I put up for my own project[0] a few days ago:
> Until sometime last year I'd been coding socii in the open because I bought into the MVP (minimal viable product) hoopla the tech community spouts. As a result, no one used it because it lacked features people expected or wanted. Turns out, if something is too minimal it ends up not being viable and well, no one will use your product.