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by devs1010 5304 days ago
If its a of web app I doubt its "complete" as they never really are (I work for a company with a 10 year old web app thats still having changes made to it), so you can go to him and say, "I've put in 3 months so far, you've put in basically none, now it's your turn" and he can handle the next stage of development, bug fixes, feature additions, etc while you take the back-seat for the next few months and handle the fluff work. If he doesn't like this, then maybe consider pulling a zuckerburg
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You're right, of course. It's by no stretch of the imagination complete, but it's getting very close to our minimum viable product to push out the door.

Maybe I'm a control freak, or maybe I'm impatient; I like your suggestion but I can see it now: he'll agree to it, then nothing would come of it for a few weeks/months, then I'd grab the reins again and do it myself.

After having this discussion on HN, I'm definitely of the mind that his and my timeframes are just incompatible. Looking back, he's had a casual and slow, "it'll be done when it's done" attitude, while I'm very much of the fail-fast mindset (aka push it out the door ASAP and see what happens).

Thanks for the thoughts.