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I’ve sold many an incomplete product and made money from improving it over time.

From my perspective, exploiting addicts and capitalism never entered into it; that’s just how MVP and customer-focused development work. Making money from the MVP validates the general direction and developers are incentivized to improve utility to generate additional cash flow.

Projects that seek to deliver a complete and optimal solution day one generally fail because the creators don’t have a complete and optimal understanding of customer need. Plus it takes forever and creators need to eat while working.