Things I'm thinking about
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Things I'm thinking about
The prevailing dogma is that startups should ship and iterate as quickly as possible. Scott believes that’s often counterproductive. You need to “surprise and delight” your customers to create a product that grows organically. You can’t do that by simply meeting a user’s expectations; you must surpass them. Doing so takes time and polishing.
Mario Gabriele • Modern Meditations: Scott Belsky
That's where the challenge of building quality products starts to creep in. The constant tension of shipping faster versus shipping better. Falling into a cycle of "Ship, then iterate" is a trap. It ends up being more shiterate . Things happen and that "fast-follow" V1.1 release or V2.0 you had imagined probably won't. There's always a new shiny
... See morePaul Stamatiou • Craft
I understand the argument for shipping early and often. But I also believe that we should aspire to build lovable products, not viable products. And lovable products take time to build and polish.
sari azout • Things I'm Thinking About
More and more, I have lost conviction that “minimum viable products” make sense for product development.
It makes no sense to release a product with the core flow and then dismiss its viability after the aggregate data says people aren’t using it.
Instead, founders should have a fundamental belief about what people want—and they should keep iterating... See more
It makes no sense to release a product with the core flow and then dismiss its viability after the aggregate data says people aren’t using it.
Instead, founders should have a fundamental belief about what people want—and they should keep iterating... See more