[jasongrishkoff]

As one of those folks featured on IndieHackers (https://www.submithub.com), I can say that I didn't read a single interview, advice blog or anything of the sort. I just focused on rolling out an MVP that streamlined the problem I was trying to solve. I confess that to this day, I haven't read any of the other interviews on IndieHackers :-D. Oops, hope you're not seeing this Courtland <3

[l33tbro]

I struggle with this so much that I even managed to unearth a buzz term (1) for this syndrome of reading too many advice blogs.

That aside, I think a lot of this is relative to where one is at in terms of education, network, support structure, access to capital, and a raft of other factors

Eg, if you're an MBA with a deep and narrow understanding of a certain niche, you're not going to lean on startup blogs in the same way an enterprising trucker from Wyoming is who's fuelling the hustle with Youtube tutorials on Java and epub torrents.

Entrepreneurship is a very long and lonely road, so it's perfectly reasonable that many of us look at these sites to (re)validate our decision to take a risk and steer off-course in our career choices from the rest of our peers.

1) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analysis_paralysis

[corpMaverick]

It is also a way to procrastinate. We often do it because we want everything to be perfect. It is really fear of something not being perfect what that causes the paralysis. Reading blogs is just a way to convince your brain that you are being productive. But you are not.

So forget about perfect and just do it. Once you start moving it is easier to get going. You will get a chance to improve things later on.

[mrisoli]

I knew this existed but I never knew the name thank you!

I suffer from this in many ways, not just shipping a product, but even when just starting a dumb side project it is easy to get sidetracked with simple decisions, such as language, framework, etc.(the infamous JS fatigue)

[tixocloud]

It's a real thing and I've been involved in teams where we continue to spend so much time doing research instead of talking to prospects and launching something. We went so far to convince ourselves of why our solution sucks. If you don't have belief in your solution, why should someone else pay money for it?