Fantastic! We are following some of the lean principles in order to help validate our idea before we head too far down the development path (great post here - http://theagileplanner.com/blog/building-agile-planner/buffe...). The feedback we've had has been great so far, but we really want to find out if there is any specific functionality that is best focused on.
Getting feedback from HN is vital in helping us shape the beta.
"Lean" is being used to justify increasing amounts of inanity. Please consider how you might be using up public goodwill to look at new startups by wasting people's time with nothing.
"The internet" is being used to justify everyone getting everything they want for free.. Please consider how you might be using up entrepreneurial goodwill to make your life easier in many different ways without ever giving back and wasting the entrepreneurs time for no return.
Lean principles are there to make sense of an idea before too much time is actually wasted developing it. I would say that getting a hundred people to spend 60 seconds reading a landing page and then signaling their intent with a quick click is much less wasteful than months of development on an idea that may not have any real market. Going onto the street with a clipboard and survey doesn't really cut it todays world...
I was quite happy to help, as i was with the buffer lean landing page before.. i would hope that if i wanted to do the same type of thing to validate an idea, that i could count on the tech community to help...
We have developed an alpha of the basic platform with a few rules that we wanted to use ourselves (therefore not strictly following lean), the idea here is to use feedback from HN to shape where we go from here, are there any features that you'd specifically like to see? is this something that appeals to you? the more feedback the better.
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Fantastic! We are following some of the lean principles in order to help validate our idea before we head too far down the development path (great post here - http://theagileplanner.com/blog/building-agile-planner/buffe...). The feedback we've had has been great so far, but we really want to find out if there is any specific functionality that is best focused on.
Getting feedback from HN is vital in helping us shape the beta.
"Lean" is being used to justify increasing amounts of inanity. Please consider how you might be using up public goodwill to look at new startups by wasting people's time with nothing.
"The internet" is being used to justify everyone getting everything they want for free.. Please consider how you might be using up entrepreneurial goodwill to make your life easier in many different ways without ever giving back and wasting the entrepreneurs time for no return.
Lean principles are there to make sense of an idea before too much time is actually wasted developing it. I would say that getting a hundred people to spend 60 seconds reading a landing page and then signaling their intent with a quick click is much less wasteful than months of development on an idea that may not have any real market. Going onto the street with a clipboard and survey doesn't really cut it todays world...
I was quite happy to help, as i was with the buffer lean landing page before.. i would hope that if i wanted to do the same type of thing to validate an idea, that i could count on the tech community to help...
So... You haven't actually made anything besides the marketing page?
We have developed an alpha of the basic platform with a few rules that we wanted to use ourselves (therefore not strictly following lean), the idea here is to use feedback from HN to shape where we go from here, are there any features that you'd specifically like to see? is this something that appeals to you? the more feedback the better.