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anyone felt 6 month is kinda long? I guess it depend on the type of product, but wasn't the first version of Gmail written in a day?
by ricksta 14y ago
anyone felt 6 month is kinda long? I guess it depend on the type of product, but wasn't the first version of Gmail written in a day?
- boyter 14y agoI'd say most projects can be knocked together to a basic proof of concept in a day. However getting it to be able to support 100 million users (as per the article), or even be worth showing takes a lot longer then that.
- msbarnett 14y agoThe prototype, perhaps. Not the version that initially shipped.
- sdoowpilihp 14y agoKeep in mind that is the outer bounds. I am sure no one would complain If a team delivered a quality product in some fraction of that six months time period. Even more, though six months sounds like an eternity to a startup with 7 months of "financial runway", for teams used to the bureaucratic pace of yahoo, 6 months is likely considered to be breakneck.
- verelo 14y agoThe first "version" could be the wrong term. I'd be asking how long did it take for the first "user facing version" to be produced. I imagine 6 months isnt far off, maybe less but it would be a very restricted beta.