My App Strategy – Keep Trying New Things
One strategy I’ve tried throughout my software career is to fail often and fail fast. Any time one of my ideas reaches the point where I seriously consider building it, I immediately think about how much I could sell it for. (And for what it’s worth, my second instinct, if it’s not a viable product, is to open source it, which I do quite frequently.) What this means is that over the last seven years I’ve built quite a few apps – many of which have been formally discontinued or become abandonware. I’m not proud of shutting down products and …