Dennis H. Lewis and others discuss how much planning founders need before building. Spend a few days to a week understanding customer pain points and architecture, but avoid months of planning that kills momentum. Failures and broken things are inevitable, so plan enough to dodge obvious pitfalls, then iterate.
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Don't jump in and start building a.
Bubble application without thinking about your database, because you will fall on your face. It will fail. It will not scale, it will have a gazillion problems. Start thinking about how you're going to create the user experience. What functions are you going to have in the back end and what functions are going to be on the client side?
These are really important planning steps that.
You do have to take into account, but they can be done a lot faster. You don't need six months to do them. Maybe you need a day or two to do them and do them well. The time is being compressed, but the actual process is still fundamentally the same. Think about your customer.
Really get to understand the problem they're.
Facing, the part that hurts, and then design a solution that you can effectively bring to market as you cultivate a community of people that are suffering.
How long can you afford to spend planning?
At least a week.
But not six months.
Not six months.
If you're. If you're.
If you'Re planning for six months, you're.
Probably just taking yourself for a ride, thinking that you're building something and you're not.
How do you feel when you hear the, you know, this concept of move fast and break things?
You know, I. I think it's kind.
Of a cool idea. In fact, if.
If I didn't know that you were.
Having a bad hair day, I'd say.
Now'S the time that you give me.
The cap, because I'm probably the one.
Who'S more willing to break things than you.
You're more organized than I am. You're more.
I don't like it when things break or where the. You know, when the unexpected happens.
Right.
You're a little more chaotic.
I am. Maybe that's the age as well. I've just seen so many things happen.
I know they're going to happen. I know things are going to break. There's no way around that. Life is breaking things.
You're my dad. Give me a tip for not being so scared of the uncertainty.
Sit down and tell yourself, okay, if.
The worst thing that you're imagining happens, what does that really mean in concrete terms?
