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Re:Ask HN: Not Ready. Now what? by sutro on Monday November 29, 2010 @06:26PM (#1952284)
So what you have is already "great," "awe-inspiring," and "amazing" yet if you ship it now instead of a few days from now it will somehow be "crap?"

I doubt that what you have is crap. I also doubt that what you have inspires awe. You're putting too much pressure on this "launch." It's just the first of hopefully many public or semi-public iterations. No one is going to care anywhere near as much as you do about this. Just get it out there, consider it a success if you pick up a few early adopters, and iterate.

Re:Ask HN: Not Ready. Now what? by bmelton on Monday November 29, 2010 @06:42PM (#1952339)
The tech is awesome. A lot of what the user can't see is just plain sweet. This is mostly leveraging a lot of other people's elegant tools (CeleryQ, RabbitMQ, Mongo, etc.)

The front end is missing a lot of obvious pieces which have placeholders. It looks like Franken-App (or Franke-App's monster, if you prefer).

You're 100% right, to be sure. Nobody else will care the way that we do, but I know that I personally find it hard to revisit something later if it's really bad at first.