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I isolated myself for 5 months (unpaid) to build an app based on a simple idea I had. I went OCD on it until it was done and live. Passion took over and I reall
by bsvalley 10y ago
I isolated myself for 5 months (unpaid) to build an app based on a simple idea I had. I went OCD on it until it was done and live. Passion took over and I really wanted to see it live. I realized a few week later that no one actually needs it. I was so convinced by the quality of the app, that people would want to use it... I bypassed the most important thing - does it really bring any value? Not really. I was totally blind coding for 5 months... Do your market validation first and do not necessarily fall in love with your own product. This is not something I could have built in a month, I knew it was a big investment up front. Oops!
- kleer001 10y agoIf you don't mind me asking, what was it?
- romanhn 10y agoI did something very similar - left my job a bunch of years back to create a social network for angel investors. I wrote up some lessons from my failure here: https://github.com/rshekhtm/VentureTap https://github.com/rshekhtm/VentureTap, with this paragraph most relevant to this discussion: "The biggest non-technical takeaway for me was that development in a vacuum can sink a project that may have otherwise stood a chance. Confusing secrecy for competitive advantage, I was very guarded about sharing my thoughts with other people and in fact did not solicit feedback until after the first cut of the code was released. Having read books on angel investing, I thought I understood the space - if only I had been aware of the concepts of lean software development! If nothing else, I gained appreciation for transparency and communication, albeit too late to make a difference for VentureTap." Oops :)