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If you can sell it as faster than the alternatives, it makes sense to optimize. But in the web-focused marketplace, adding 6 months to your launch calendar to
by fixermark 11y ago
If you can sell it as faster than the alternatives, it makes sense to optimize.
But in the web-focused marketplace, adding 6 months to your launch calendar to get something fast to market may mean someone else's good-enough solution becomes the entrenched, de-facto standard that you are now fighting to prove you're superior enough to that it justifies people's time cost to move their data to your solution.
That's the risk tradeoff.
- PavlovsCat 11y agoIt really depends, avoiding some pitfalls isn't always that much more work, but merely requires knowing (and caring) about them in the first place.
- kylequest 11y agoIt's easy to point out the places where you could've done a bit more optimization after the fact. And, yes, sometimes those optimizations don't cost an arm and a leg, but it's very easy to fall into the premature optimization mode that kills the product and the company. Not everybody has tons of funding in the bank. For some startups shipping a day later can put you in the death spiral trajectory. Timing is a huge factor in a startup success. It's easy to think why not just do it right in the first place. Aside from the timing you, as a startup, don't really know what "it" is or "it" is constantly moving. Committing to perfection at that stage can be a sure way to kill the company. Even if "it" is known and it's not changing you still need to keep in mind the Gall's Law.