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My "PHP friend" has already done several profitable projects with the least amount of perfection. He knows how to do it right, has already the traction to bring
by rmoriz 16y ago
My "PHP friend" has already done several profitable projects with the least amount of perfection. He knows how to do it right, has already the traction to bring already paying users over to his other new projects. Unfortunately he lives ~500km away.
When I ask my developer colleagues about feedback for my "crappy alpha", I'm just getting totaly bullshit responses like "you need javascript input validation before the user sends his form" despite the real problem I try to resolve.
So I asked serveral of my ~100 developer contacts on different projects, unfortunately feedback was kind of the same.
But only few of them managed to release something in their spare time. So they probably have the same problem as I have.
It's hard to get in contact with people that made it, some of them just tell you "I was lucky" which is cool, but not really helpful - It's easy to say that when you've made it :)
- 10ren 16y agoSo it sounds like you're convinced you should aim lower, but are having trouble actually doing it. Oh no, you don't ask for feedback from your colleagues - you get it from people with the problem you're solving. From users. Your fellow developers can't even know if you solved the user problem; the best they can do is point out things like grammatical errors which, as you say, is useless. EDIT I guess your PHP friend wouldn't have been able to bring over users for his very his first app, and I bet he remembers it vividly. You could email him, or talk on the phone. He's not the only person in the world to have shipped, but you know him, so he's an excellent person to start with. You could visit him. Consider: 500 km vs. 4 weeks. Sounds ridiculous, but if you take this journey, you won't forget his point of view.