One of the biggest things I’ve learned is that it’s easy to build for people like yourself, but that there are very few people exactly like you. In fact there might only be one.
Focus on a real pain point that people are having, and organize everything in your messaging around that.
Why do people need a document manager in the first place?
What is this going to do for them that their existing solutions don’t do?
How is it going to be better than the existing document managers that they have?
(If you find yourself going down the ‘its Decentralized’ route, don’t, people simply do not care)
It doesn’t have to even be much better than what people have, as long as it knocks it out the park for that use case. Hell, GMail started as conversational email plus a load of storage.
It may make your messaging seem kind of sparse - that’s a good thing. People are time poor, and have time to dig into the features later.
But without it you’re going to end up building something that is kind of a lot of things, but not really good at anything.
I shelved a bunch of my "bright" ideas for time a time when I'm better at pitching when I realized "this will work if everyone just does it my way" wasn't a great plan :)
> One of the biggest things I’ve learned is that it’s easy to build for people like yourself, but that there are very few people exactly like you. In fact there might only be one.
macOS, GNOME, iOS all seem to -successfully- have the less is more paradigm.
i have been going down exactly that path. i found a platform for collaboration and document management that i thought was awesome. i didn't create it, but it was GPL licensed and i tried to get people to use it. no luck. i eventually added a REST API and use it myself as a development platform for building websites.
so now i solve peoples problems using the tool that solves my problem.
Focus on a real pain point that people are having, and organize everything in your messaging around that.
Why do people need a document manager in the first place?
What is this going to do for them that their existing solutions don’t do?
How is it going to be better than the existing document managers that they have?
(If you find yourself going down the ‘its Decentralized’ route, don’t, people simply do not care)
It doesn’t have to even be much better than what people have, as long as it knocks it out the park for that use case. Hell, GMail started as conversational email plus a load of storage.
It may make your messaging seem kind of sparse - that’s a good thing. People are time poor, and have time to dig into the features later.
But without it you’re going to end up building something that is kind of a lot of things, but not really good at anything.