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Fair enough, I got the timeline pretty wrong. The point I was trying to make was it's unfair to place a higher standard of success on an industry just b/c it h
by adamhowell 17y ago
Fair enough, I got the timeline pretty wrong.
The point I was trying to make was it's unfair to place a higher standard of success on an industry just b/c it has a finished product it has to ship.
Twain wrote many novels b/f his breakout success, whichever book it was. Why? Because when he started he wasn't as good as he was in his 40s/50s... just like when you launch a webapp it's not as good as it will be after you've iterated on it for 2 years.
Anyway, I'll try and stick to a subject matter I know a little better next time ;)
- robotrout 17y agoThat lesson may be the correct one to draw here. However, I could just as easily say that the lesson here is to abandon your web app, and write 10 more, until you "make it". No amount of lipstick will make a book with a boring plot shine, or a web app that doesn't fill a need, popular. I've abandoned three of them (web apps), and am working on a fourth, while you've been presumably, iterating and making yours more beautiful. Hopefully, we'll both win. As an aside, I was reminded, when I read the chronology, of all the money he lost as a wanna-be venture capitalist. He lost his fortune, dumping it into printing press designs that the engineers could never get the bugs out of. Too bad he didn't abandon that at some point...