Weekly contact with paying users is what the launch-early rule is really for: it means learning from reality instead of your own extrapolated conception of it.

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• Reaching product-market fit requires deliberately not acting on the feedback of many of your early users, at the same time as listening intensely. RVRahul Vohra23 Mar 2025
• You have to talk to customers and share your ideas as early and as often as possible, even though you need not take their advice. ESEvan Spiegel26 Apr 2026
• A launch is a party; a landing is customers paying for the thing, and only the landing is worth measuring a career by. KHKelsey Hightower3 Jun 2026
• A startup succeeds by getting people who feel real urgency to use its product, since that urgency both brings in revenue and produces the feedback needed to build the right thing next. JEJason Evanish16 Sept 2025
• Launch-early advice does not survive contact with mission-critical software: email is not something you can ship half-baked. RVRahul Vohra23 Mar 2025

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