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Yes. It's the prototyping phase. Medicine, hardware, even food. Cliff made his energy bars "work" first in his kitchen, then started to figure out how to mak
by zild3d 9y ago
Yes. It's the prototyping phase. Medicine, hardware, even food. Cliff made his energy bars "work" first in his kitchen, then started to figure out how to make them scalable and optimized for taste, etc.
Any hardware startup does the same. Get a giant, hulky prototype going, with shotty wiring, way too much weight, and get it working. This make it work first adage is because you don't know what the final product/project will need to be (e.g. do it in python and then figure out how to make it better)
- blub 9y agoAh food. I believe Soylent was experimenting with this idea of make it work and then make it work right, which resulted in a lot of entertainment for those that read the toilet stories of Soylent customers. I don't see why there has to be a hard cut between make it work and make it work right or fast in prototyping. With more thought, perhaps the product can already be largely right and fast enough and also easily improvable. I can't help but look at this saying as an excuse to get something done fast with the hope it can be improved later. This is not a general truth.