"Half the charm of making something to me is in letting your fingers drive the direction"

It is easy to say this when you run a highly successful company with a highly successful product generating lots of revenue and profits.

Not everyone is in that state yet. And until you do I think you better understand your product and users through ... some kind of metrics?

(I ended that with a question mark - I am genuinely interested to hear of people generally subscribe to this "just build it and they will come" approach)

Or maybe he is conflating Metrics and KPIs and A/B testing? The post is a bit all over the place ...

Yet another contrarian nonsense from DHH - one medium successful product doesn’t give them so much credibility to dismiss what everyone else does.