What's up with these "I made ___ in ___ hours/days" posts
jdietrich: In 1977 the punk band The Desperate Bicycles released their debut single Smokescreen. The song featured the refrain "It was easy, it was cheap, go and do it!". The back cover broke down the costs of recording and manufacture, explaining that it cost them in total £153 to release 500 copies. The medium was the message.The spirit of the "__ in __ hours" posts is exactly the same. Developing the barebones of a product is infinitely quicker and simpler than most people believe. Many great businesses are trapped in people's daydreams because they just haven't overcome inertia and procrastination.I would expect that most of us here follow the logic of agile, MVPs, iterative development and so on, so why do so few of us actually make a go of it? Look at Patrick of Bingo Card Creator - he's built a small and simple product in his spare time that has grown into something that he can quit his day job for. Any one of us could have built a working prototype of Bingo Card Creator in a couple of days, but Patrick did and we didn't. Too many of us understand intellectually that we just need to launch a piece of crap and start iterating, but not nearly enough of us have the guts to follow it through. It was easy, it was cheap, go and do it.