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Thanks for publishing your book it has been really useful for me. When you were first working on DDG who did you show it to before you "launched" on here? Wha

Thanks for publishing your book it has been really useful for me. When you were first working on DDG who did you show it to before you "launched" on here? What kind of early feedback did you get?

epi0Bauqu 11y ago
These interviews (I referenced above) were really the first things I did: https://www.youtube.com/user/tractionbook https://www.youtube.com/user/tractionbook I blogged all of them on Hacker News (you can search the archives to see), and then started blogging ideas that would become the book and got feedback from those on my blog and on HN. This was all before really writing. Once we actually started writing we recruited "early readers" periodically to read and give feedback up until we had a full draft more ready to go, in which case we hit up our whole list and got another round of fresh-eyes feedback.
- calpaterson 11y ago
  Sorry, I meant when you were working on your search engine
  - epi0Bauqu 11y ago
    Oh man, double face palm :) I would go around to local meetup groups here in Philly and continually show it to people, as well as friends and family.