Found+READ: Comments by Sanchit Bhatnagar

Sanchit Bhatnagar — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:39:57 GMT

wow, is this a gem of an article.. thanks so much!

Though the article touches on this, I think it is really important to emphasize the K.I.S.S principle. One always needs to remind him/herself that users are somewhat lazy (no offence, I am too) and want to avoid any learning curve so the less the input, the less the buttons to hit, the better the overall product and the more the happy users.
It is something that you really understand fully as you go through the process yourselves I guess :)

Sanchit Bhatnagar — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 06:04:02 GMT

Pain and Pleasure are always the biggest motivators for any person. NAC/NLP studies have a lot of research done on this subject and divides people into two groups:
1) those who run away from pain (like your above example, or like me who has a constant fear of a competitor stealing our market)
2) those who run towards pleasure (like somebody hoping to accumulate funds for his next vacation, or buying a new house, etc).

My personal opinion is that these are good for motivating oneself but all work and no play is dangerous (and it often happens) – because while you can always make up for lost business and money even at the age of 60, there is no way you can ever make up for the lost time in life
(Sorry to tread on the philosophical boundaries above but its how I feel and I think its important too).

Sanchit Bhatnagar — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 19:10:06 GMT

Thanks adam for asking this question. I’d like to know the answer to this too (maybe with a bonus tip for people who are outside US).

Sanchit Bhatnagar — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 22:30:37 GMT

Hi Zvi,
I’ve actually been faced with that question myself one times too many and from my own personal experience I would definitely suggest keeping it small AND PROFITABLE first.

Borrowing this quote from Mr.Wil (who has incidentally has written an excellent book called “Go Big or Go Home” which i read recently – and a recommended reading all the same) your business is just an idea until people start buying into it. So before you start approaching investors its good to generate some income and use that income to market the product first.

Good luck and HTH,
San.

Sanchit Bhatnagar — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 08:00:36 GMT

you should also probably include flex/as3 on your list too. I know up until now AS hasn’t been a real or very popular programming language like C, but i feel things are about to change with flex, since its the RIA age and adobe has been really pushing hard to make it the next best thing to HTML both online and offline apps (AIR)..

its pretty impressive too judging from the stuff i’ve seen done with it so far