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The time between having an idea and its public launch is measured in days not months, weeks not years. I like and totally agree with most of the article but th
by sailormoon 17y ago
The time between having an idea and its public launch is measured in days not months, weeks not years.
I like and totally agree with most of the article but this myth annoys me. Exactly none of the the huge complex web apps he namedrops could have been made in under a week. And even if they were, that time omits what must have been an extended period of contemplation and conceptual design by a definite "rock star" level programmer.
- mbrubeck 17y agoSure, creating an entire new product can take a lot longer, but almost everyone working in web startups has the experience of launching a new feature (for an existing site) the same day it was first suggested.
- sailormoon 17y agoSure, if it's a small feature that fits in well with the existing structure. But Tbray's talking like people can just knock up facebook or basecamp from scratch, in a matter of days. No-one can do that. Oh yeah sure, you might be able to make a decent stab at re-implementing one of them in a few days but it's a different story when you have to just make it up. Anyway I do agree with him generally, just that I see this stuff a lot. Good web developers are stunningly productive compared to your average .NET corporate seat-warmer but they're not magic!