Product

working at a pre-PMF startup requires a change in perspective when it comes to quality. you can't afford to ship everything 95% polished, because you can't afford to invest that much effort in ideas which are likely to flop

ship as much quality as it's possible, but not much more

until you find PMF. then go WILD

✳︎ design engineer → @ponder 
✳︎ explorer of humanism • petrolhead/gearhead
✳︎ React/SwiftUI
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what are some examples of apps that invested into quality only once they hit pmf?

i my experience, the quality can only go down over time, never up

don’t know any. ship your unique features high quality, leave the table stakes like team or account pages imo. poor quality work gets no users especially early adopters who try so many things.

linear is maybe not a good example because they went ape on quality from day 0

raycast is a good example imo; very good from the start, but it’s only getting better since they hit pmf and started charging for pro

the quality bar is insane in both cases