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direct thoughts: > Balance your early engineering and infrastructure with achieving Product Market Fit No, not really, you should focus way more on the latter

direct thoughts: > Balance your early engineering and infrastructure with achieving Product Market Fit No, not really, you should focus way more on the latter really. We devs love the first tho. e.g. comment from your original post 12mo ago: "Super stoked to see you launching after working on it for so long!" -> how much of the code you've written was necessary to come to the realization you eventually came to? Based on the way you described your trouble selling, seems like very little to none. - Azure seems like a bad choice (running out of capacity lolwut) - corollary to above: don't get too attached to where you worked. Seems like your original idea was heavily based on something u saw internally. Just because something works well at one (usually large) company you worked at doesn't mean it serves a widespread market need (I've been burned by this). Just some thoughts, hopefully your pivot is successful!

haacked 4y ago
> No, not really, you should focus way more on the latter really. You're absolutely right. I think I should have phrased this as "Don't completely neglect your early engineering and infrastructure." Some choices could inhibit our ability to achieve product market fit. > - Azure seems like a bad choice (running out of capacity lolwut) I think the pandemic created supply chain problems that affected a lot of companies. There's a lot of reasons to like Azure for me. I'm familiar with it. They focus a lot on developer experience. But this one issue really hit hard and definitely makes me want to be more flexible in how we deploy to the cloud. > - corollary to above: don't get too attached to where you worked. Ha! Yeah, we really loved the GitHub way of working. Turns out, GitHub had a unique culture and it doesn't necessarily translate over to whole market. I wish I had included this in the post. > Just some thoughts, hopefully your pivot is successful! Much appreciated!

haacked 4y ago

> No, not really, you should focus way more on the latter really. You're absolutely right. I think I should have phrased this as "Don't completely neglect your early engineering and infrastructure." Some choices could inhibit our ability to achieve product market fit. > - Azure seems like a bad choice (running out of capacity lolwut) I think the pandemic created supply chain problems that affected a lot of companies. There's a lot of reasons to like Azure for me. I'm familiar with it. They focus a lot on developer experience. But this one issue really hit hard and definitely makes me want to be more flexible in how we deploy to the cloud. > - corollary to above: don't get too attached to where you worked. Ha! Yeah, we really loved the GitHub way of working. Turns out, GitHub had a unique culture and it doesn't necessarily translate over to whole market. I wish I had included this in the post. > Just some thoughts, hopefully your pivot is successful! Much appreciated!