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I like the analogy, but is good advice to software startups? "Finished is better than perfect" is probably a better startup philosophy. I've seen too many fri

I like the analogy, but is good advice to software startups? "Finished is better than perfect" is probably a better startup philosophy. I've seen too many friends waste time on the nth refactoring of their code rather than focusing on shipping and proving customer value.

Swizec 12y ago
"Finished is better than perfect [as long as it isn't crap]" I've seen too many products become a miserable mess because people believed in "finished is better than perfect". But that's something you learn when you're rewriting your code for the nth time to add the nth feature because otherwise you just can't fit anything new in there. But as I always say on these occasions, please keep shipping bad code. I make good money fixing it.
- neurobro 12y ago
  Ah, but could your clients afford to hire you to clean up their messes if they hadn't finished something first?
  - Swizec 12y ago
    The clients I've worked with from the get go maintained enough flexibility to finish something every couple of weeks ;)
jasonpeacock 12y ago
quality != perfect You can still be fast and good, though it takes more discipline than just cranking out workable but crappy code.