The Key to Success is to Iterate
Tim Klapdor,
Heart // Soul // Machine,
Jun 22, 2021
I've heard this before. The idea is that you build a minimal viable product (MVP) that does the least you can possibly do, get user feedback, and iterate from there. Just as depicted in the image and well-documented in this post. And that works, I think, in (to borrow terminology from Kuhn) 'normal development'. That's what we have when we're working in a relatively well defined problem space, with familkiar tools and mechanisms and interfaces. But my experience is that to build something really new, you have to follow what I've seen called the 'two times advantage'. You can't just offer one imporvement over what was done previously, you have to double that; people won't get out of their comfort zone for less, which means you can't increment your way to it, you have to be able to show them the full benefit before they're willing to give it a try.
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