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How much do you already know about your users? Because this is a pretty fundamental thing to know, before you start writing code. Check out "The Four Steps to the Epiphany" by Steve Blank (who sometimes visits here)

http://www.amazon.com/Four-Steps-Epiphany-Steve-Blank-ebook/...




Thanks for this: I found this free link with the book though: http://www.stanford.edu/group/e145/cgi-bin/winter/drupal/upl.... Hopefully it's the same or as good version.

I'm actually building this for myself initially. I currently work in the industry and realized that there are a lot of tools and ways to consume information about the industry faster and easier that don't exist, so I actually know quite a bit about my users. I'm doing some additional user research as we work on development to make sure my working habits aren't totally out of the ordinary and to estimate the number of items the freemium version will have available, assuming we have a freemium option.


I actually asked the question Sunday night here if I should build for myself only, and assume other users want exactly what I want or do more user research to make sure what I want is what others want as well. I'm trying to build it where no one should have any huge gripes with it.


Build it for the people who need it and have money to spend. :)




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