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by st3fan 1120 days ago
"Half the charm of making something to me is in letting your fingers drive the direction"

It is easy to say this when you run a highly successful company with a highly successful product generating lots of revenue and profits.

Not everyone is in that state yet. And until you do I think you better understand your product and users through ... some kind of metrics?

(I ended that with a question mark - I am genuinely interested to hear of people generally subscribe to this "just build it and they will come" approach)

Or maybe he is conflating Metrics and KPIs and A/B testing? The post is a bit all over the place ...

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> I fully realize what a luxury this is. If you're not yet profitable, it can be instructive to use some of these metrics to pinpoint why.