How not to build a product

You’re thinking about a product that could be useful, bring you money or fame. But you don’t seem to progress. The damn thing is left unfinished on your drive or in the garage. If you don’t want your project to succeed here’s couple of good ways to kill it:

• Don’t build a product you want to use (or want others to use)
• Don’t do dogfooding
• Don’t tell anyone about what you’re doing (especially in public)
• Don’t set deadlines
• Don’t talk to customers
• Don’t look for people that could help
• Don’t write it down (keep it in your head when it’s safest)

I’m guilty as charged. I have this idea for a great Twitter/social networking client that I started, almost finished MVP but I keep postponing the damn thing.

Because I use another application for Twitter I don’t have the urge to fix mine. If I deleted it I’d have a working version already.

I tried to look for a people to come and help with the project but I did it in so shitty way - after a few first “no” I decided to leave it.

And I could continue with the list. Please don’t follow into my steps.