Ask HN: Best business advice for software developers

Re:Ask HN: Best business advice for software developers by c0achmcguirk on Wednesday April 19, 2017 @11:35AM (#14148460)

SHIP IT. Even when you are embarrassed about it. Ship it and try to sell your ugly baby. If you can't sell it, ask why and iterate on that.

I've seen what happens when you keep the product secret, trying to perfect it before you show it to the world. You'll run out of money making a pretty baby that no one wants.

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Re:Ask HN: Best business advice for software developers by rubenrails on Wednesday April 19, 2017 @06:01PM (#14152212)

I agree. I developed a Pinterest-like app around the same year they launched. I even had a perfect domain name for it. Being a perfectionist, I never shipped. I was worried about things like scaling to support tens of thousands of photos, a "similar images" feature, etc. A few years after abandoning the project I discovered Pinterest. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Re:Ask HN: Best business advice for software developers by dzonga on Wednesday April 19, 2017 @09:53PM (#14153352)

sad, but made me laugh

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