[coldtea]

>You shouldn't be focused on pumping out something 24/7 you should be thinking of how to make the best product that you can possibly make.

This is a false dichotomy. "Timely delivery" is also an essential feature of any product.

Or, as they say, the better is the enemy of the good.

While you're "thinking of how to make the best product that you can possibly make" others can just go ahead and make something. And that something, even if it's not the best product that one could possibly make, at least it would exist, then and there, and so would be million times more useful than any project that's still designed in someone's mind.

[gravypod]

When the product is contracted work*.

When the work is for yourself, you set the due date. Setting the due date at 1 month is bound to yield unsavory results.

[coldtea]

>When the work is for yourself, you set the due date. Setting the due date at 1 month is bound to yield unsavory results.

People have created profitable side projects in a couple of weeks or even less.

[gravypod]

In software development? Defintely. In art? No.

[coldtea]

If we don't count the time needed to master their skills (which we don't for software development either), artists have often created profitable works in a couple of weeks or less.

Songs that were conceived and recorded in a few days have become big profitable hits (e.g. "Doctoring the Tardis"). And of course a napkin sketch from someone like Picasso can easily fetch like $1000 or $5000.

[icebraining]

Deadlines are set for art all the time, and some of the greatest works were commissioned on a deadline.