Re:Ask HN: Should I give up and get a job?
by telomero22 on Thursday March 03, 2022 @04:12PM
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Here is what I would tell you.
Only build things that only take 1 month to build. If it takes longer, you're doing it wrong. An MVP should only take 1 month to build, if it's longer, it's not an MVP, but a convoluted, unrefined idea of what you had in mind.
For example, if you have been building something very complex for 2 years on your own, you've done something very wrong. No successful entrepreneur builds something for 2 years alone, they have a team and even those that have a team launch it after a couple of months. It's very rare that an experienced entrepreneur builds something for years before they launch.
It's also not expensive. Any software engineer in the Western world can pay a competent team of 3 overseas developers, but for some they want to prove themselves that they are successful on their own. That's the wrong way to go about it.
Only build things that only take 1 month to build. If it takes longer, you're doing it wrong. An MVP should only take 1 month to build, if it's longer, it's not an MVP, but a convoluted, unrefined idea of what you had in mind.
For example, if you have been building something very complex for 2 years on your own, you've done something very wrong. No successful entrepreneur builds something for 2 years alone, they have a team and even those that have a team launch it after a couple of months. It's very rare that an experienced entrepreneur builds something for years before they launch.
It's also not expensive. Any software engineer in the Western world can pay a competent team of 3 overseas developers, but for some they want to prove themselves that they are successful on their own. That's the wrong way to go about it.