Priorities
What’s the Big Idea?
- Explicitly define the one-point vision for your app
- Mantra
Ignore Details Early On
- Working in iterations from large to small.
It’s a Problem When It’s a Problem
- Make decisions just in time, when you have access to the real information you need.
- examples: scalability, features, servers
Hire the Right Customers
- Find the core market for your application and focus solely on them
- If you try to please everyone, you won’t please anyone
- Know who your app is really intended for and focus on pleasing them.
- Polarize your customers
Scale Later
- You don’t have a scaling problem yet
- Create a great app and then worry about what to do once it’s wildly successful.
Make Opinionated Software
- Your app should take sides
Tags: Getting Real, notes