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A Postmortem of Failed Products
- teddyh 13y agoChoice quote: > I got a call from Developer Relations saying they didn’t allow “that kind of app” in the store.
- iliaznk 13y agoThat made me really sad.
- dalke 13y agoOdd. It made me ... content, is perhaps the closest word. It's hard to make a product. I've had several attempts of mine fail, while I make a living as a consultant. In fact, I wouldn't say that I've had a success yet. So it's nice to hear someone else talk about the ongoing difficulties in software product development, rather than only from the occasional software successes.
- iliaznk 13y agoYou're right. Negative experience is valuable as well. I mysefl is now in a somewhat similar situation: I convinced my wife and my friends to try to implement a web-service I had in mind with a small working prototype. They agreed to suppor me financially and I quit my day job and took a year for now to finish it and have at least beta version running. I should say that I feel really grateful and really appreciate this opportunity and what my friends are doing for me.
- kartikkumar 13y agoA really candid view to the travails of making a product a "success". I think the following quote sums up pretty much everything: > OK, how about this: most of my failures seem to be marketing failures. This includes misjudging if there is a market for a product or how big that market even is. Perhaps the point in all of this is that it's almost all a clear case of technology-push as opposed to market-pull. Your chances are a whole lot better when you've got the product-market fit sorted. It's almost always more difficult than the technical side of things when it comes to success at the end game.
- TempleOSV2 13y agoGod is perfectly just. God says... climate woot phasors_on_stun hit you_better_not stuff yep I'll_get_right_on_it Shhh employer couldnt_possibly I_was_sleeping to_infinity_and_beyond beam_me_up heathen other it_gets_better I_didn't_see_that hey_thats_right what's_up crash_and_burn money ROFLMAO absolutely I_love_you no_more if_anything_can_go_wrong na_na on_occassion super_computer everythings_a_okay comedy just_lovely basically rocket_science it's_my_world I'll_get_right_on_it caution adultery Obama wife end sad Mars What_are_you_doing_dave