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They won't mind obvious issues as long as you can show progress towards solving their pain point. In 2010 I worked on a 3D audio mixing software. The first bet

They won't mind obvious issues as long as you can show progress towards solving their pain point. In 2010 I worked on a 3D audio mixing software. The first beta crashed every 30-60 minutes, losing any unsaved data. People truly hated that. But mixing for 22 speakers + 2 LFE by hand was still an order of magnitude more painful than dealing with our buggy beta. So our customers were (rightfully!) complaining all the time. Yet none of them was willing to wait for the first stable release. After trying the beta, they were hooked.

ekidd 4y ago
> Yet none of them was willing to wait for the first stable release. After trying the beta, they were hooked. When consulting, I could always tell which clients had serious traction: Even if their product was incomplete or buggy, customers would literally make a line at a trade show to write checks, because they wanted the product that badly. In extreme cases, "product-market fit" just means the customers are saying "Shut up and take my money!" It's like watching a rocket-ship take off. Not all successful startups take off like this. But the ones that do have a much easier time succeeding.
cercatrova 4y ago
> There are only two kinds of programming languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses. Now replace programming languages with products.