Get the Big Picture or die
September 3, 2007 – 17:01Ask the Wizard yesterday:
The point is that “build it and they will come” isn’t true. You need to build it, and then show them exactly how it can be used, and then show them several explicit examples of why it’s powerful, and then they might come.This means that I, as an entrepreneur, a creator of a new tool or service have to think out a whole depth and cycle of people using my creating.
Depth: from User Interface down to OS tricks and pricks. Last are most painful caring about scalability and security.
Cycle: from first time a person sees – not your product, but how somebody mentions it – through the whole usage cycle up to super-power user that is not satisfied with current options and cries out “API! API! API!”.
Now I wish only have more hours a day and more days a week. Issues Done and Chytach are long before I would dare call them anywhere close to feature-complete.
