Why your product idea sounds too complicated
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Why your product idea sounds too complicated
WHY YOUR PRODUCT IDEA SOUNDS TOO COMPLICATED: THE "SIMPLE TO WTF" SCALE
There's a complexity scale for how people describe products. Here it is, from simplest to wtf:
- SIMPLE (and easiest to understand): The product can be described in 2 words as [adjective] + [noun] like "electric car" or ... See more
andrew chenx.comAdding one extra feature nearly cost us our startup.
Monday morning, anxiety twisted in my chest as I deleted half of our codebase.
Our product was buried under features, each an attempt to stave off failure, yet leaving us on the brink of collapse. The team lingered, eyes glued to my screen.
“It’s too cluttered,” I finally said, swallowing my fear.
My
... See moreHere's what I've come to see as the guiding light of my life: simple ideas, explained very clearly. You only really need, like, one or two compelling ideas that you deeply understand. And then you have to be able to make other people understand them, which is the hard part. You have to distill, and in a way distillation is harder than creation. Sim... See more