how I’d build a startup
it reflects how the best software products aren’t just assemblages of functionality , exposed by particular formal elements (links, buttons, icons, menus). Rather, they organize and shape how you think, and they create or sustain a particular lifestyle:
Celine Nguyen • research as leisure activity
It = research as leisure activity
Slow and steady against hard problems. Start my turning your social media apps off because that will give you a break. Slow compounding
Solving a problem for your user is great, but easing their cognitive dissonance can have a much greater emotional impact.
There is likely something that your user wants more than just a solution.
There is likely something that your user wants more than just a solution.
Easy to find an idea
Transformational ideas for software—the ones that could become huge businesses and change the world—are rare and hard to spot. Even when they do work out, they often take tremendous effort and require an appetite for risk.
In contrast, incremental improvements to existing software are far easier to find . If you’re opinionated... See more
Transformational ideas for software—the ones that could become huge businesses and change the world—are rare and hard to spot. Even when they do work out, they often take tremendous effort and require an appetite for risk.
In contrast, incremental improvements to existing software are far easier to find . If you’re opinionated... See more
For your next side project, make a browser extension
The key point to understand about Bloomberg is that it’s both a software product and a social network. The software product determined who would join the network, but the network is what keeps users there. It’s like a multiplayer video game, or Harvard: Sure, the quests and campus are useful, but people keep showing up because of the friends
... See moreSubpixel Space • Come for the Network, Pay for the Tool
Culture is the deepest moat one can create.
Soleio from indie interview
on the importance of a singular vision and good judgment