How to ship fast as a small company looking for product-market fit

1. Avoid side quests. If you aren't coding, selling or talking to users, it's a side quest. 

2. Eliminate process. Don't cargo cult your team into sprint planning, offsites or recurring 1:1s. Gather once a day, talk about what to ship and ship it.  

3. Hire people who love to ship fast all the time. Most people cannot do this correctly or do not enjoy doing it. 

4. Don't hire people who can't ship. It's temping to get an ea, bd rep or community manager to offload work. This usually just creates more work for you. 

5. Have a simple and fast tech stack. A new hire should be able to write a feature in a day and deploy it to users in 30 minutes.

Technowatermelon. Elder Millenial. Building Farcaster. 

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My biggest thing is hyper optimize your team for end to end iteration. Be able to ship, then have customers give feedback. The more iteration cycles you have the higher likelihood you will have PMF.

I’ve experienced too much where Eng ships fast but go nowhere because they don’t listen to customers or can’t close the end to end loop. 

Shipping fast is just a given and default - no doubt hard to maintain and scale.

Building a product that people love are die hard fans is like catching lightning in a bottle.