I've been building products full-time for several years now. If I could go back and give myself one piece of advice when I started, it would be thi...
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have you tried though 🧐
No maybe I should 😂
Definitely something I needed to hear 2 years ago.
Mic drop moment. Love your Practical Playbook section, especially tip #4.
Great insights (and well-written) - brilliant stuff, this is the kind of dev.to post which deserves way more likes (and should be in dev.to's "7 top posts of the week" as well) ...
Well it's sometimes hard to tell if the product is “too innovative” or “new yet boring”. Even with your project, UserJot, which you frame as “boring” — I suppose it has something innovative, which didn't exist before. So how do exactly you tell apart “boring” vs ”innovative”?
Thanks for the insights!
If you’re working solo, this breakdown makes total sense to me.
I just wonder, if there’s a small team and some resources, maybe there’s still room to try something new... Of course, that would need proper research, validation, and talking to potential users before jumping in. Just thoughts. )))
👏🏻 awesome article
Revolutionary products are hard, technically. There is something special when you have to write your own distributed message delivery to get a function triggered. It's a solved problem. Just use Kafka or AWS. But no, now here we are even saying that none of that matters and just a simple ChatGPT wrapper slapped on some CRM will sell. Yeah, it will, and it probably would make my current rent bill astronomically small.
But you know what? Someone has to keep the edge moving, even if it means that failing multiple times will still, at some point, lead to a return that at least catches up with that ChatGPT wrapper slapped on some CRM (spoiler: it may never do).
Awesome article! But how do you find customers and communicate with them? For me it sounds like the hardest part in all of this, and even if you create something nice but don't have sales skills it's doomed :/
Sounds like a gap in the market for introvert programmers who needs to market their stuff, but how will they ever find out about it 🤦
I shall copy you in your journey of tech. Shall I?
Wise words. They remind you of where you really should move, without being distracted by disturbing things.
Great article!