-48h : bare minimum
Daily stories from the ambadoo team, behind the scenes, dev-stats and other random stuff.
Yep, it’s about the time we’ve left until submission. Including sleep. We’re crunching tickets & hunting bugs in wicked speed. The app is actually getting in a stage where it’s useful and actually make sense.
But we’ve come to the point where it’s about removing everything that isn’t absolutely needed to be there for it to make that sense. This might change until friday so I won’t make that list until we’ve submitted the app. Even in your own profile we’re asking ourselves what’s absolutely necessary.
bare minimum.
Addresses? Jobs? Tags? Names? Ok, name might be a good idea. But that’s what we’re doing now. Listing & prioritizing from the bare minimum and then in order what’s most important. Sync to server, quite important, adding friends, quite important, not messing up your address book, VERY important.
So what we have on Friday afternoon is most probably what some people would call a minimum viable product, and others proof of concept. No matter what, its main purpose is to show it to the world its potential, gathering feedback and building from there. As Steve Jennings just said: Launch and Learn.
Even then, we know how fast people judge. How many seconds do you give an app that doesn’t work, lag, behave strange or you just don’t see the meaning of? 1 min, 30 sec, 10 sec or less? I know myself when I download something I’m very quick to give a thumb up, tweet & talk about it, or just move it to ‘archive’
Do we get more than one chance? I don’t know, but I believe that an app that does less, but does that well, have a bigger chance than an app that does it all but nothing well. Until Friday we’ll make sure that, no matter how little the app does, it does it well.
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Anton Johansson
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petter palander