Ah, so development in the long-term is like chess. I need to think at least 5 moves ahead, ideally. Got it. I wonder when I'll be done with my initial analysi

Ah, so development in the long-term is like chess. I need to think at least 5 moves ahead, ideally. Got it. I wonder when I'll be done with my initial analysis, so I can finally start building, but I suspect it'll be 3 months from now as I need to evaluate a lot. But after that, I can strap on my rocket ship and go to the moon with my product. Oh, nobody wants my product. I guess I should've created a crappy prototype first. Ah, I see that people want my product with my crappy prototype. Wait, what? We're 1 year down the line still working with our crappy prototype code as a base and now our competitors are building much much faster than us? (You should've gone with Lisp and not C, buddy) How on earth am I supposed to do this right?! Oh, there's talk about this team that didn't build anything but just did market research and then started building it [1]. That might be a way to go, but how do you know when you simply talk to people they'll be correct in what they say about their own future behavior? Where they just lucky. I suppose it worked for that company. Oh wow, Nomad List just started out as a Google Spreadsheet? [2] I guess that's one way to go! If that's applicable to your particular app. Oh, and this particular game developer does actually show a history of having prototype code and then just updating his development stack and workflow practices, so I guess in some cases it can be done [3]. I guess, I'll just write up a guide of potential actions one could do and see which is applicable to which situation. I'll also talk to some senior devs and ask how they do it. Man, the real world is complex! [1] From the book Traction. [2] Pieter Levels his story: https://levels.io/product-hunt-hacker-news-number-one/ https://levels.io/product-hunt-hacker-news-number-one/ [3] See the game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIsCYHpCfVc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIsCYHpCfVc Read about his development style: https://www.reddit.com/r/asciicker/comments/d3ca43/whats_going_on/f03z4xk/ https://www.reddit.com/r/asciicker/comments/d3ca43/whats_goi...