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Make sure you are doing something that you can accomplish and have launched in a 1 to 3 month window of time. I went for something super complex and it taken m

by gscott 19y ago

Make sure you are doing something that you can accomplish and have launched in a 1 to 3 month window of time. I went for something super complex and it taken me years to get a point where everything is stable, it has enough features, and to where it is flexible enough to create additional products on the same base of it. It has been a hard road and I am battle scarred from it.

gruseom 19y ago
accomplish and have launched in a 1 to 3 month window of time Are you sure you're not taking a grass-is-greener perspective here? People say this 3 month thing a lot, but I'm not sure it happens very often in practice. Building a software product is hard.
- carpo 19y ago
  Its definitely hard, but being a single founder myself, something like this really helps keep me focused. Ive been working by myself since the start of the year, and gave myself a deadline of 3 months to have something i could launch. I finally setup my site on the production servers this week, and am in the process of testing it with some friends and making small changes. I think ill be ready to go more public with my site in a week or two ... so i'm a bit later than my initial goal ... but without that 3 month figure pushing me on, i think it would have been even harder.
- gscott 19y ago
  One project I did about 3 years ago, a modeling portfolio site http://www.profolios.com/ http://www.profolios.com/ took a little less then 3 months to make. It is far out of date now, the marketing guy wasn't selling as much as he thought and kept on demanding just an unlimited amount of programming. But in that window of time I got a lot done, I still have the code for myself if I ever want to do anything with it. A single founder can push out a lot of code in a short amount of time. You just really need to know exactly what you want and you need to know your language good enough to not have to be learning it at the same time you are using it.

by gscott 19y ago

gruseom 19y ago

accomplish and have launched in a 1 to 3 month window of time Are you sure you're not taking a grass-is-greener perspective here? People say this 3 month thing a lot, but I'm not sure it happens very often in practice. Building a software product is hard.

carpo 19y ago
Its definitely hard, but being a single founder myself, something like this really helps keep me focused. Ive been working by myself since the start of the year, and gave myself a deadline of 3 months to have something i could launch. I finally setup my site on the production servers this week, and am in the process of testing it with some friends and making small changes. I think ill be ready to go more public with my site in a week or two ... so i'm a bit later than my initial goal ... but without that 3 month figure pushing me on, i think it would have been even harder.
gscott 19y ago
One project I did about 3 years ago, a modeling portfolio site http://www.profolios.com/ http://www.profolios.com/ took a little less then 3 months to make. It is far out of date now, the marketing guy wasn't selling as much as he thought and kept on demanding just an unlimited amount of programming. But in that window of time I got a lot done, I still have the code for myself if I ever want to do anything with it. A single founder can push out a lot of code in a short amount of time. You just really need to know exactly what you want and you need to know your language good enough to not have to be learning it at the same time you are using it.