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Or you find a customer base you didn't expect. Which has happened on products I've worked on a couple of times. Not to mention a lot of markets look like this.
by Gibbon1 6y ago
Or you find a customer base you didn't expect. Which has happened on products I've worked on a couple of times.
Not to mention a lot of markets look like this. Takes a year before they notice you. A year for them to realize you aren't going away. Another year before this buy anything. Another year before they buy in quantity.
Consider those first two years. None of those guys would know your current product is a POS because have haven't bought any yet. And they won't really mind finding rough edges as long as they are convinced they'll fixed.
- Waterluvian 6y agoI've never shipped anything commercially on my own. But my gut feeling is that there's a fear of, "I'm going to ship something that's not great, and so people will look at it, decide against it, walk away, and my chance is gone forever." I have a feeling that in reality there is always a constant stream of new potential customers who will consider your product, and eventually the number of people who reject it and walk away will start to go down.
- Gibbon1 6y agoMy company has two customers that were unhappy enough that we refunded their money and they came back a few years later.