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3. G.K. Chesterton
“I owe my success to having listened respectfully
to the very best advice, and then going away and
doing the exact opposite.”
5. A product for your own community
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6. Amy Hoy
“Are you a Ruby developer? Then serve Ruby
developers. Are you a UX designer? Serve UX
designers.”
7. With a track record in a community you will
already have trust.
9. John Radoff
“The goal of a startup is to find the sweet-spot
where minimum product and viable product meet
– get people to fall in love with you.”
10. To launch with a small product, you need to find
a problem that can be solved with a small
product.
11. Perch v.1
• A simple content editor
• No way to add new pages
• No API
• Images could be uploaded - but not resized
12. A product that solves a problem that people will
pay to have solved
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13. If you can save a business time they will see the
value in paying for your product.
16. A product that does not need a
lot of users to be useful
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20. Perch competitors at launch
• WordPress
• ExpressionEngine
• CushyCMS
• PageLime
• Joomla
• Drupal
22. New concepts will require you to educate
potential customers as to why they even need
your product.
23. Finding the time
How to make time for
side-projects.
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24. Malcolm S. Forbes
“One worthwhile task carried to a successful
conclusion is worth half-a-hundred half-finished
tasks.”
25. Sir John Lubbock
“In truth, people can generally make time for
what they choose to do; it is not really the time
but the will that is lacking.”
26. Get set up to be able to pick up and work on
your side-project quickly - whenever the time is
available.
31. Be realistic about how much you can achieve.
Feeling as if you are falling behind can
demotivate you.
32. If there is not enough time ...
• Either revise your end date
• Or, remove elements of the project - pushing them into a
post-launch phase.
38. • for your own community
• something you can ship quickly
• something that solves a problem people will pay to have
solved
• a product that does not need a lot of traction to be useful
• something that has existing competition
Build
39. Once you know what you want to build
• Start small
• Solve that small problem in a complete way
• Get feedback from paying customers
• Improve and add to your product based on their needs
balanced by your vision.