[anil_mamede]

> A lot of programmers have a big tunnel vision. They want to create a 'startup' no matter what

But it is not the programmer's fault. Many incubators preach that everyone must have an ideia, no matter how awful it is.

[mgkimsal]

No, it's still a developer's fault. Just because people say to do something doesn't mean to do it. Likewise, many other parties preach something different.

Building out a full app then testing out a hypothesis was probably a waste of time. Putting up a landing page and promoting out to his network would likely have yielded very similar results - people saying "we don't need another todo list". faster, and cheaper.