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The difficult part is knowing what people need more. It's just an opinion until you find out for real. We all bring our own biases into what is essential/pain
by prpon 15y ago
The difficult part is knowing what people need more.
It's just an opinion until you find out for real. We all bring our own biases into what is essential/pain point for people.
Until the rubber meets the road, you never know.
- Terry_B 15y agoYou can do a fair bit of work up front to get a pretty good idea though I think. At least about which of them don't stand a chance. People just don't like doing it, including me, because it's hard.
- prpon 15y agoI have gotten opinions both ways. People who do not want to critique an idea until they see something they can lay their hands on aka demo. And the other side where people who want to make sure the idea has market before they write a single line of code. I am not sure which one works. Being a coder and as someone who tends to code before evaluating, I would like to know specifics on how to do evaluation before execution.
- Terry_B 15y agoIf a prototype is trivial to build then absolutely. But I don't think there's ever an excuse for not going out and asking people who might have these problems some good questions. "Would you pay for this?" being one of them.
- peteforde 15y agoThis is only good advice if you don't care about potentially wasting years of your life. It's fine to fail, but don't set out to fail. Failure can be forgiven, but somewhere people got it into their heads that they should brag about it. Lots of people wore bellbottoms, too. Doesn't mean it was an idea for the ages.