I always get a kick out of reading about your philosophies on the craft, Mo. Can you expand on what you mean by "Horizontal development vs. vertical development"
Horizontal and vertical are definitely terms I use a lot when waxing philosophical about software and business, but there's a million ways to use these terms, I'd love to know what you mean by this.
I guess by that I mean, vertical development would be, for example, having the greatest iOS app the world has ever seen, but having a poor website, customer support, marketing, and everything else. A lot of people go all in on making 1 thing really really good, but neglect the other aspects. Horizontal development means you'll have a living iOS app that isn't the best in the world, but is constantly being updated while you also build up other aspects of the business.
So, for me, there's a time for vertical development, like where I spent over a month just hardcore focused on the new iOS app. After that, I'll balance out the rest of the platform and focus on other areas.
I like to visualize it as laying out blocks. You can stack one pile really high, but that's not really a foundation. Instead, laying them out horizontally, then building up vertically at a balanced pace, and you'll have yourself a nice building ;)
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I always get a kick out of reading about your philosophies on the craft, Mo. Can you expand on what you mean by "Horizontal development vs. vertical development"
Horizontal and vertical are definitely terms I use a lot when waxing philosophical about software and business, but there's a million ways to use these terms, I'd love to know what you mean by this.
I guess by that I mean, vertical development would be, for example, having the greatest iOS app the world has ever seen, but having a poor website, customer support, marketing, and everything else. A lot of people go all in on making 1 thing really really good, but neglect the other aspects. Horizontal development means you'll have a living iOS app that isn't the best in the world, but is constantly being updated while you also build up other aspects of the business.
So, for me, there's a time for vertical development, like where I spent over a month just hardcore focused on the new iOS app. After that, I'll balance out the rest of the platform and focus on other areas.
I like to visualize it as laying out blocks. You can stack one pile really high, but that's not really a foundation. Instead, laying them out horizontally, then building up vertically at a balanced pace, and you'll have yourself a nice building ;)