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from the article: As Fried and Hansson write, "The most important thing is to begin." I disagree, I think the most important step is to finish/release. I can'
by viggity 17y ago
from the article:
As Fried and Hansson write, "The most important thing is to begin."
I disagree, I think the most important step is to finish/release. I can't tell you how many products I've begun. But after a year and half, I've finally finished a product and will start accepting paid orders tomorrow. The sense of joy is overwhelming, even if I don't make a dime off of it.
- kiba 17y agoI disagree, I think the most important step is to finish/release. I disagree. The most important thing is to keep trying to iterate. If that mean starting 20 projects and seeing 19 of them fail, then so be it. I got a lot of dead projects, but there is a few project that I stick, to rain or shine. It took me years to finally start programming.(Granted, I was 14-15 years old when I started programming) Persistence is more important than finishing anything. Eventually, finishing will take care of itself as you develop pain tolerance.
- gizmo 17y ago> finally finished a product ... and will start accepting paid orders tomorrow Hate to say it, but you've only just begun. Your product life-cycle starts when you get your first customers, and 98% of the work is still ahead of you. But congrats. Launching is a great milestone!
- rimantas 17y agoI disagree, I think the most important step is to finish/release. How do you finish something not started?
- viggity 17y agoDon't get me wrong, starting is certainly important, the problem lies in that most people have a drawer full of half finished products/projects. I think this is because of the maxim: "The first 90% of a software project takes 90% of the time, the last 10% of the project takes the other 90% of the time" I personally have 9 started, yet unfinished/unreleased projects. You can't just say "oooh.... something shiny!" all the time if you want to make money. You have to finish. You have to release. And doing that is a lot harder than starting.
- HeyLaughingBoy 17y agoI wish I had cites for this, but my observations and my understanding of human nature tell me otherwise. Most people never even start, they think idly about starting a business, complain about their lives, say how happy they would be if... In another thread a few weeks ago I posted that my friend who had started an after hours handyman business found that the biggest complaint his customers had (and what made it easy for him to get business) was that the contractors they talked to on the phone simply never showed up!
- waterlesscloud 17y agoHaving dealt with small construction contractors several times, it's not just that they don't show up, it's that half the time they stop showing up in the middle of the job. Just vanish. It's the weirdest thing.