Ask HN: One small decision that had most impact on your app or startup?

christophepas 8 years ago |

Justify most features by data. Once you start doing so, the roadmap & the way to build it changes drastically and for the better. It allowed every function of our company to be 100% aligned and to avoid arguing with only gut feeling on what's prioritary.

tpkj 8 years ago | |

> Justify most features by data. What kind of data do you mean: data related to "this is something the customer wants", or "we've done studies showing this shade of blue has XYZ effect", or...well, I hope you get the idea. An example of what you mean would be interesting.

malux85 8 years ago |

Going to the Amazon AWS web summit and setting up a stall.

Lead to huge customers and lots of revenue. I'm normally pretty introverted and dont like doing such things, but I thought I'd get out of my comfort zone

SirLJ 8 years ago |

Automate everything, if I have to do the same thing twice, I would automate it... Automation is the best concept since the sliced bread :-)

andrei_says_ 8 years ago | |

Some examples of what specifically you’d automate?

SirLJ 8 years ago | | |

everything about my stock trading robots, from stock selection, to order execution, to open position monitoring, to order closing...

andrei_says_ 8 years ago | | |

Maybe I am confused but I don’t see how this is related to a startup.

SirLJ 8 years ago | | |

This is my startup, it is focused on stock trading robots....

andrei_says_ 8 years ago | | |

I see, thank you for clarifying.

togusa2017 8 years ago |

An easy transparent feedback section (where everyone can see everyone's comment and reply) Some of the best ideas came from their. But on the other hand alot of complaints too I guess.