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Build Things that Don’t Scale

2018-11-27

Build Things that Don’t Scale

Build things that don’t scale—that is how you build a successful company. How are you going to validate the idea when you need to spend thousands of dollars on a developer to build your app? It doesn’

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Build things that don’t scale—that is how you build a successful company. How are you going to validate the idea when you need to spend thousands of dollars on a developer to build your app? It doesn’t seem worth it.

Rather, build an MVP (minimum viable product) that is completely manual and unscalable. Trick them into thinking you have a fully fleshed out product. Will customers buy that instead?