Scratch Your Own Itch

David Heinemeier Hansson, Jason Fried · 31m · 37signals.com ↗

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3:56 · David Heinemeier Hansson

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Build the product for yourself first: if it truly serves you, plenty of other people like you will want it too.

Their wordsThis is the blessing in terms of almost automatic product management that comes for free when you're building for yourself. Because the list of priorities is just very clear.
12 min later
15:37 · Jason Fried

Our reading
Build the product for yourself first: if it truly serves you, plenty of other people like you will want it too.

Their wordsSo that's the thing that's great about building something that you're going to use yourself, is that you have answers to questions that you might never actually be able to really truly get from somebody else.