How consistency makes the big difference

Being in the software industry for more than 7 years now, I have come across many people aiming to build their own Facebook and Google. Talks about startups, ideas and technology trends is very common in the software social circle. Not only the experienced in the industry are talking about building apps and solutions they think will become the next big thing, in fact every other person who has learned to write code wishes his idea becomes the next unicorn.

Many engineers have tried pitching their ideas using presentations only to investors telling them if they could get the investment how that would double and triple and eventually grow exponentially over the period of time. Investors on the other hand are looking for real products and solutions. Even if the idea is good and promising they aren’t willing to invest just in the presentations and demand much more than that.

Most ideas are usually thrown away at the ideation phase, i.e. to be founders are talking about their idea every where and to everyone but are not willing to put their working hours and nights in to make it a reality. A small percentage of people start with their ideas and give up in the middle hence idea never comes out to public.

I with my partner, this time decided not to stop in between and complete the product we are working on no matter how bad it is. Before we always thought of making our product as perfect as possible and thus were never able to bring it out. You can only improve after you get the feedback from your real customers.

“If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you’ve launched too late.”
- Reid Hoffman

I have been working on this restaurant listing and review app, HummyYummy. Just as others many of my ideas are residing as an incomplete piece of software on my PC because I lacked consistency for them. This time we decided to complete it no matter if we have to be ashamed of our first version, we can improve periodically. We worked daily on our idea even if it was for only an hour or even less. The goal was to make progress daily and hence with in two months we are out with the very first version. Hence what can make you successful is the consistency and the daily effort you put in, that small progress daily makes the big difference in the longer run.

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