[themmes]

Thanks for sharing, I just quit my sideproject after a year of coding and find posts like this helpful to learn from that experience.

> Then I stopped, took a step back and looked at the product from the perspective of someone who would want to pay for it.

Though I think this is dangerous advise. You do not know what this perspective is like (unless maybe when your product is a “scratching your own itch”-type product) and therefor making design changes makes no sense. You will never know if users maybe even preferred your first “design”, or that there is a different blocker like landing-page, installation-instructions or anything really preventing them from starting using it.

[davnicwil]

Thanks for saying that as it's basically the reason I wrote the post. Really good to share these lessons with fellow bootstrappers as so many of them are general and applicable between projects, even whole businesses.

Totally agree with what you're saying here and let's see, I might write another post in a few months essentially saying this was a mistake and a waste of time, but yeah if you're interested in seeing a comparison, check out the twitter account for the blog @zero_startup and you can see the old screenshots and the newer ones.