Allan Branch
Allan is the co-founder of LessEverything which is the coolest company you've never heard of. They make amazing products like LessAccounting and LessFilms. He loves his family more than breathing. He also build cool lamps as a hobby MassalinaDrive.com
Allan is the co-founder of LessEverything which is the coolest company you've never heard of. They make amazing products like LessAccounting and LessFilms. He loves his family more than breathing. He also build cool lamps as a hobby MassalanaDrive.com
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- (prioritization) the answer changes every day
- how we pick the feature to work on depends on resources
- where are we trying to take the app balanced against what the customer is saying
- realize they don't know our long term vision
- they don't see the full picture
- ideas are not the problem, knowing what to work on next is
- sometimes features are Pandora's box of other features
- especially with a small team you have to be conservative about what you build
- change something small, you'll get 50 praise and 50 hate emails
- take user feedback and put it in a place that doesn't hurt you
- we try to interact like human beings,...more than likely they are human too
- gathering feedback, it's all hard
- you give advice based on your situation,...don't know the full story
- advice is easy to get, not right a lot of the time...just got to go with your gut
- get the psychology behind what are they trying to accomplish
- ...only takes 15 minutes to read all the daily tickets
- everyone has baggage, perspective, shortsightedness...your job is to look above that
- listen to everybody a little bit, and then ignore everyone
- that state of chaos is what I need
- wish we had more resources, but then we would be building a lot more crap
- what the internet doesn't do for us is make you think you are the smartest person in the world