Chapter 5 🙂
In this chapter the first topic was “Half, Not Half-Assed”, It said that in building your web application you should make a half of your product first. By having a smart idea, think take whatever you think that your product should be, then build the half of it and you’ll see how it will hit. We start with a lean then we let it gain traction, after that you can start to add some foundation of what you’ve built. Like building things that does matter.
It’s like thinking smart, even others would ask why you wouldn’t do those simple things. Having a real programmer and a designer aren’t the ones with the best skills. Those are the people who would think that those ideas are not important at all so why build them now? Why not build half that are important. We don’t need to waste our time in building does things that doesn’t matter. If you continue that idea you’ll achieve productivity you’ve never imagined.
We don’t need an app that pleases everyone all the time, we need an app that will stand. We don’t need to agree on everybody’s idea, sometimes we need to think on our own ideas. Building an app with features that proves itself and showing that it can survive in every way. But make sure that you build an app that you can manage, because if not it would only create a headache. Build product that you can manage and control until the end. That’s why you need to start with the half not an half assed. Because if you build a half-assed customers would expect something that you can’t afford to manage anymore. So make sure whatever it is you’re doing is something that you can sustain until the end, organizationally, strategically and financially.
You don’t need to promise, because sometimes it’s hard to keep. Let people solve their problems, just build what you can then step out of the way. And let them solve it on their own. You just do the best job that you can to help them.
It’s not bad to listen to ideas, or request of your customers. You don’t need to add them all and change all they want. You just have to listen then listen on your own work. Believe on what you have build and maintain the vision for the project.
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