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For what it is worth, lots of people on HN, and elsewere, struggle to finish a product! That's good news, because it means you might be able to overcome it. Th
by 27182818284 13y ago
For what it is worth, lots of people on HN, and elsewere, struggle to finish a product! That's good news, because it means you might be able to overcome it.
That's where MVPs come in. Ship an MVP. Have you seen how atrocious Reddit was when it first came out? Remember when Facebook didn't even have a wall to post on? Google was called Backrub when it started. Ship an MVP. You also have to consider, that sometimes, the idea wasn't actually that good. You ship the MVP and get no traction, you can pivot and figure out how to make it better or move onto the next idea.
- imnotinsane 13y agoThanks! This has actually shot me in the foot a couple times. To give an example: I think I was most productive in 2005 during the 4 months I was at UBC, where I did nothing but research recommender systems and design screens for a music album recommendation site (hivolume.net!). Which turned out to be far more efficient by the last.fm model of automatically submitting your played tracks to their service rather than having to add them each manually as my idea would have been. So that idea got shelved as have quite a few like that where the scope is beyond one person yet I pluck away thinking that something miraculous will occur to adjust reality in some way, where getting from A to B becomes doable.