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Also the whole "you must have quick changes to succeed" is overblown. Sure a hacker will probably be able to roll out a new change a week earlier, but how much

Also the whole "you must have quick changes to succeed" is overblown. Sure a hacker will probably be able to roll out a new change a week earlier, but how much can you really gain during that 1 week? In many cases, a hacker will be able to roll out a change three months earlier. Sometimes I turn around a change for a client in as little as an hour, but a big change? Those rarely happen within a timeframe that most entrepreneurs would find acceptable. Especially if you don't have an agency-of-record relationship - those always take priority.

vaksel 18y ago
I really don't think there is that one feature that will kill a product, if its not rolled out immediately. + I don't think there has ever been a startup that didn't have it's users clamoring because they have to wait for some new feature to get coded. And usually its something very simple too. And once again you approach this as a hacker. Put yourself in the shoes of a complete noob. Lets say 2 years later he was able to copy paste together some working code to get his basic idea working(it has to be basic, because the person doesn't have the skills/resources to do anything groundbreaking). Then its time to add a new feature. Once again he needs to dive into the code, and it'll take him a lot longer to finish, compared to even a contracted agency that can just jump into the source safe and copy paste the specific code for that specific function. If you are a hacker, doing it yourself is definitely advisable. But for your average Joe Blow who has no clue how to code something as basic as a hello world app, I'd think its much more advisable to have someone else do it, instead of wasting time putting together crappy code, they can be up and running with a decent quality website much faster. And then while the new changes get coded they can continue working on marketing their site. You can have the best site on the net, but w/o users its worthless.

vaksel 18y ago

I really don't think there is that one feature that will kill a product, if its not rolled out immediately. + I don't think there has ever been a startup that didn't have it's users clamoring because they have to wait for some new feature to get coded. And usually its something very simple too. And once again you approach this as a hacker. Put yourself in the shoes of a complete noob. Lets say 2 years later he was able to copy paste together some working code to get his basic idea working(it has to be basic, because the person doesn't have the skills/resources to do anything groundbreaking). Then its time to add a new feature. Once again he needs to dive into the code, and it'll take him a lot longer to finish, compared to even a contracted agency that can just jump into the source safe and copy paste the specific code for that specific function. If you are a hacker, doing it yourself is definitely advisable. But for your average Joe Blow who has no clue how to code something as basic as a hello world app, I'd think its much more advisable to have someone else do it, instead of wasting time putting together crappy code, they can be up and running with a decent quality website much faster. And then while the new changes get coded they can continue working on marketing their site. You can have the best site on the net, but w/o users its worthless.