DHH: The luxury of working without metrics
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DHH: The luxury of working without metrics
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Re: DHH: The luxury of working without metrics
#2"Half the charm of making something to me is in letting your fingers drive the direction"
It is easy to say this when you run a highly successful company with a highly successful product generating lots of revenue and profits.
Not everyone is in that state yet. And until you do I think you better understand your product and users through ... some kind of metrics?
(I ended that with a question mark - I am genuinely interested to hear of people generally subscribe to this "just build it and they will come" approach)
Or maybe he is conflating Metrics and KPIs and A/B testing? The post is a bit all over the place ...
Re: DHH: The luxury of working without metrics
#3"Half the charm of making something to me is in letting your fingers drive the direction" It is easy to say this when you run a highly successful company with a highly successful product generating lots of revenue and profits. Not everyone is in that state yet. And until you do I think you better understand your product and users through ... some kind of metrics? (I ended that with a question mark - I am genuinely in…
> I fully realize what a luxury this is. If you're not yet profitable, it can be instructive to use some of these metrics to pinpoint why.
Re: DHH: The luxury of working without metrics
#4Yet another contrarian nonsense from DHH - one medium successful product doesn’t give them so much credibility to dismiss what everyone else does.