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thinking about this more: • "get the damn thing to work at all" is like coil pottery: bricolage, composed upward, results are crude and clumsy • "create a meaningful product" is like turning the clay on a wheel: you are sculpting it subtractively
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as somebody who has spent a lot of time writing one-off infrastructure, "get the damn thing to work *at all*" should be treated as a separate concern from "create a meaningful product"
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i never really liked the whole "minimum viable product" thing because you can waste a lot of time arguing which work not to do, so "minimum" is not a good optimization criterion (as i argued on 's ribbonfarm many moons ago doriantaylor.com/expedient-desi)
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I do think an element of testing in production is central to whatever concept you anchor on Something that a user wouldn’t see as a version of the final product doesn’t count. But faking it is okay. So wireframes are out, but a landing page collecting emails for beta is.
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