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by alok-g 4558 days ago
>> Bazaar failed because, at the beginning, it was painfully slow compare to git and mercurial. It speed has increase over time, but bad reputation is hard to get rid of.

Is this an example that goes against the common advice to launch an MVP fast to test the market (and then keep on improving)? It seems that the advice is valid only when there is nothing for the customer to compare the to-be-launched product to. If competing products end up launching at around the same time as yours, the advice may turn its head on you.
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jeltz 4558 days ago
Git was also early to the market, but had a fast core and terrible user interface. Git was used for the Linux kernel only two months after Linus had started coding.
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radioact1ve 4558 days ago
This is a good point. Is there more to this? As a big believer in the MVP, this is something I have to look more into.
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bronson 4558 days ago
Well, as this article implies, a lot of people don't consider bzr's speed minimally viable.
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