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12 Jan, 2010

Getting Real: Notes on Priorities

Posted by: Jerry In: books| notes

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

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