[jwr]

This!

Making >> Not Making, always.

You make, you learn, perhaps one day you will make something better, perhaps not — but at least you've been building something. Ignore the armchair critics, criticizing is so much easier than building.

[digging]

I'm not upset at the OP, but I wouldn't say this is a golden rule. Some people make some really atrocious shit. People should, in general, be at least a little critical of what they're making.

[marginalia_nu]

It's fine to make atrocious shit though. Making something good takes practice. Often you need to see what sticks. Sometimes the only outcome is a lesson.

The master has failed more times than a beginner has even tried.

[halostatue]

I don't think that GP is talking about the quality of production, but the quality of the concept. There are things that people with any sense of shame would not produce.

[marginalia_nu]

I've literally only had success with software I built to satisfy my own curiosities and needs. Not all of it took off, granted, but I think that's fine. Not everything needs to succeed.

[digging]

Sorry - I don't mean low-quality, I mean evil.

[jimbokun]

Being critical of what you're making...is infinitely better than being critical of what other people are making while not making anything yourself.

The making part is the key.

[digging]

As I said elsewhere, I'm referring to people doing harm. They should stop making things.

[thealig]

it might be easier, but that doesn't mean all criticism should be ignored.

In the spirit of cliched reductive "feel good" statements of this whole comment section, ignoring criticism is also easier than building something that ends up to be extremely subpar.

[marginalia_nu]

Basically anything you build, a lot of people will crawl out of the woodwork to inform you that they'd prefer you build something else.

The only sane option is to build for yourself, you can't win trying to please that crowd.