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>I'm never starting another business where everything isn't self serve, automated and done at the beginning. Isn't this the exact point which the article argue
by ryanlchan 15y ago
>I'm never starting another business where everything isn't self serve, automated and done at the beginning.
Isn't this the exact point which the article argues against? Perhaps the problem was really that you couldn't work out a good methodology to automate these tasks with your partner, a problem that would've occurred even if you'd tried to automate it at the beginning.
I think the real takeaway here is just the same "fail fast, fail early" we see everywhere, but taken to the next level. Get Real urges you to ship your product as early as possible, but this is saying that you don't even need the product to get started.
- code_duck 15y agoThe article cited the quoted as an example of 'fake it before you make it'. My example is how I tried that, starting 'lean' - handling some procedures by hand at first in lieu of writing a web interface and backend. Part of the problem was my partner and I were learning to work together, but mainly lack of time. This was compounded by a Catch-22 situation: I lacked time to automate due to how much time it took to handle manually. The business was growing very rapidly while we were trying to expand features for the public as well as automate management procedures. It was my first successful venture and having failed to do this right, I learned my lesson.