Re:You Will Probably Fail in a Boring and Project-specific Way
by ahoyhere on Thursday January 08, 2009 @01:50PM
(#425404)
> accept you're going to f*ck up to some extent, then rework it.
Oh, I'm totally with you.
My app is far from finished. The settings area still sux. And we use lightbox-style overlays in a few places and I hate those suckers. And there's a lot more that I want to do with it, like, NOW.
But we did ship on the day we said we would. :)
The main reason we were able to do that was to first identify which missing "killer features" would not be apparent to people other than us. We, of course, had the perfect 2-years-down-the-road mental image of our project. We could never ship that.
But other people, coming to the app as newbs, would not know that we managed not to include <killer feature here>.
Then we ruthlessly qualified things as "good enough." I can't tell you how many times I said "Eh, fuck. Just ship it. We can make it better later."
I just wouldn't compromise on data entry. That's the whole point of the app. Then again, we didn't compromise on what we had, BUT we did leave out the other entry mode (still working on the design, a month later). So...
Re:You Will Probably Fail in a Boring and Project-specific Way
by m0nty on Thursday January 08, 2009 @05:14PM
(#425751)
So this is the letsfreckle.com site? Looks really good, must be fun :) If I was still freelancing it looks like something I'd actually use, unlike 90% of webapps out there.
Oh, I'm totally with you.
My app is far from finished. The settings area still sux. And we use lightbox-style overlays in a few places and I hate those suckers. And there's a lot more that I want to do with it, like, NOW.
But we did ship on the day we said we would. :)
The main reason we were able to do that was to first identify which missing "killer features" would not be apparent to people other than us. We, of course, had the perfect 2-years-down-the-road mental image of our project. We could never ship that.
But other people, coming to the app as newbs, would not know that we managed not to include <killer feature here>.
Then we ruthlessly qualified things as "good enough." I can't tell you how many times I said "Eh, fuck. Just ship it. We can make it better later."
I just wouldn't compromise on data entry. That's the whole point of the app. Then again, we didn't compromise on what we had, BUT we did leave out the other entry mode (still working on the design, a month later). So...