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I find this to be a confusing article. So, I couldn't resist to spend "10 minutes" to point these mistakes: "10 minutes to come up with something amazing" It'
by volida 17y ago
I find this to be a confusing article. So, I couldn't resist to spend "10 minutes" to point these mistakes:
"10 minutes to come up with something amazing"
It's impossible to think of something amazing in 10 minutes.
"We aren't rich because we have cheap ideas, or can develop easily, we are rich because we have friends and support. "
This is conflicting to the title of the article and in any message attempted to be addressed.
"We will never succeed with selfless promotion, so don't do it!"
Who said a startup is about self promotion? If you are doing a startup for that, you are doing it already for a wrong reason. Of course you can be proud but the difficulties will really keep you rather silent and in need for focus on the real issues.
"Build something fun, not serious at all, that has no tool or function that people can use."
the world would be a big Disneyland if everything built is not serious, fun and had no function whatsoever!
"But if you have something great, make it sound like it's for the masses."
what do you consider great? and since when great things are targeted for the masses. Probably the best "toys" are exclusive to those with more money.
"Otherwise, if you have no crazy educational background, awards, job positions at big companies, nobody takes you seriously."
Again, expecting approval is the wrong way to go. Feedback is good, but if you are in need of approval to go after something, it's probably because you are not ready yet (lack of desire, lack of expertise or belief in your abilities etc).
"Development is pretty easy as well"
since when? If you are not building something new yes it probably is. But then you'll probably wont be a startup.
Also, the article began saying he will not share experience and the article is full of "advice" derived from personal experience, which may not complete yet, therefore there will be wrong conclusions that are not helpful for most.
The only thing I somewhat agree is:
"Don't go out to places like Hackernews, TechCrunch, Mashable, etc hoping to pitch your idea."
Of course you should know your audience and what you are building.
If ideas were cheap and everyone was able to think of something "amazing" the article wouldn't be full of confusion.
"This isn't an article about my experience"
There are many other mistakes. But to conclude I'll just say that the author began saying that it's not about his experience when the whole article is based on them, from which someone can see that these are current/already expired point of views which will change accordingly if more experience is gained.
Yes, ideas are cheap judging from the whole article. Otherwise, the article would be filled with correct ideas.
Continuing flow of ideas and execution is what is hard.
- trapper 17y ago"It's impossible to think of something amazing in 10 minutes." I would beg to differ. Think about what you are saying for < 10 minutes and it might come to you. "Software is easy. Since when? If you are not building something new yes it probably is. But then you'll probably wont be a startup." Creating a rough prototype isn't that hard, if you think it is you are doing it wrong. Getting that prototype in front of real users isn't hard either, in fact if you use modern frameworks it will likely be as good as lots of other software out there. Creating great software is extremely difficult, but I know software companies making an absolute killing with hacky interfaces, no testing and poor qa. My take: Ideas aren't hard at all. Neither is building a product. Almost no one does the necessary steps (e.g. steve blanks process) to get their product right, which boilds down to heaps of face-time meetings with the target market to truly understand their problems.
- rw 17y agoIf you have found a new way to tackle a problem, then, by definition, there are no frameworks for you.
- danielh 17y agoI think you are mixing up problem and tools. OP was probably thinking of something like web frameworks that help you realize your idea for a web-based app.. If you have a fundamentally different approach for developing web-based apps, you might have to start from the scratch, though.