| Everything you're saying is valid. It just doesn't invalidate the point the article is making. Your point - which I'll paraphrase as don't sell something you can't build - is valid and important. The article's point - which may be paraphrased as don't build something you can't sell - is also valid and important. Neither is more important than the other; like basically everything in business there is a tradeoff, and the ones who succeed will be the ones who get the tradeoff right. But the author makes their point because they see too many people over-optimising on the "build first" approach and failing, when they might have avoided failure if they'd done a bit more "sell first" - or, as the article actually says, "talk to potential customers to properly understand what they want first". You're getting frustrated (indeed, coming across as enraged) and resorting to strawman and absurdist arguments because you're incorrectly seeing the article as making an absolutist point, and then responding to it with your own opposing absolutist point. If you just approach the topic with appropriate nuance you'll save yourself the need to be frustrated. Edit: changing implied quotes to be clear they're paraphrased. |