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Originally Posted by Paul Markham
The customer does not care if you're new, he cares if you deliver what he wants.
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being new in a lot of cases means not being able to deliver what they want. A new dating site for example is going to have a small user base, producing less dates if any. A new classified site is going to have a small user base producing less sales for people if any.
Come up with an idea: check, no problem.
Build the site (programming / design): check, no problem.
Pay for everything to get build: check, no problem.
launching the site and getting the first wave of people to stick and use it: the million dollar question
sticking with the idea if it doesn't explode right away: where most people quit.
Think of a forum. You can have the nicest designed and programmed forum, with tons of features but when you start advertising it everyone who goes to it and sees no posts or only a few posts will leave. It's getting over that initial hurdle of getting your initial traffic to not leave but stay, contribute, and tell their friends.
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Originally Posted by dyna mo
there's a lot of truth in this comment. a project has to be completed to stand a chance. there's so much to do and it all has to get done. i think it's a fight against human nature, we all have a tendency to start something, kick ass coming out of the gate, then lose interest or get distracted and leave it unfinished/lose momentum.
at least that is my *fight* a lot of times. the way i try to get past this is to do at least one thing a day for the project, it doesn't have to be any huge effort, somedays it might just be registering a domain or making a call or something. but even so, doing this is one step closer to completion.
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I think most people (including myself) end up feeling that way because of the following:
1. we are the type of people who like to create new things and have our most fun creating something, not running it once it goes live.
2. If you don't see instant revenue from the project once it goes live you lose interest.
3. If you are real busy it is easy to get pulled off the project to take care of other pressing issues and then never make time for the project again.