Muse retrospective

Adam Wiggins · 17 Feb 2024 · adamwiggins.com ↗

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Our reading
A business succeeds through a small number of highly effective distribution channels, not many mediocre ones.

Their wordsany given business will find a small number of highly-effective channels, and the rest don't matter.
Our reading
New productivity software rides community excitement for a few years, after which it must serve a deep, hard-to-replace need to survive.

Their wordsAfter that, I think you have to be left with software that serves a deep and hard-to-replace purpose in people's lives.
Our reading
Prosumer software needs tens or hundreds of thousands of users for its development costs to be sustainable.

Their wordsYou need tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, to make the cost of development sustainable.