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Well-deserved in my opinion. His no-nonsense and unpretentious way of building products, often out in the open, should be a source of motivation for others who
by heipei 6y ago
Well-deserved in my opinion. His no-nonsense and unpretentious way of building products, often out in the open, should be a source of motivation for others who can come up with a dozen reasons why they shouldn't attempt to do X. His blog-posts and Tweets are not hustle-porn but just straight-up "works for me, I honestly don't care what you say". A quote that I recently read applies to him very much: "Pessimists sound smart, optimists make money". Pieter doesn't try to sound smart, after all what could possibly sound smarter than making this amount of revenue as a solo founder.
- Pete-Codes 6y agoWow, how did I miss those quotes! Yeah, he is the best :) No BS or hustle p0rn
- Philip-J-Fry 6y agoYeah a lot of people get stuck in the loop of worrying whether they're using the right framework or programming patterns or whether their blog will scale to 1 million daily hits. They rarely ship anything. If you never put your work out there, you'll never be successful, so the key is to stop messing around and just build. If it's shit, it's shit, no one can see the code, if you want to rewrite it then ship it and do it after. The quicker it's out there, the better it is for you, and it's also incredibly motivating to get feedback ASAP without guessing what people might want from your product.
- chrisjarvis 6y agoI'm bookmarking this!