Listen to those users
Slowly but surely the site is looking better. Being a small team trying to deploy and move fast is tough work. You end up having to juggle programming, design, marketing, blogging, content writing, and everything else that entails running a startup. Time is limited, which means you end up pushing certain things on the back burner in order to accomplish something else. The most important thing for us at Hautlinks was to get a product out as fast as possible. Even if it ment pushing out a product that barely works.
Why would we want to do this?
The reasoning behind this is that by pushing out ASAP we could get people using the site, and start using the site ourselves. It would then be apparent what the problems were and we could go back and fix those.
I’m pretty happy that we did this. We pushed out the first version of Hautlinks in about a week. The site hasn’t even been around a month and yet we have made tons of changes, bug fixes, and added features. Thinking back to when we first started on this I’m positive certain things would have been forgotten about or looked over if we hadn’t had people bothering us to fix it.
I like those people. Those people are the reason that things got done in a quick manner. Those people are also the reason why I keep working on the site. Of course the features that I add is something that I want, but I often forget that I know how to use the site already because I helped write it. The users of the site are coming in clean, without knowing the intimate details of how the site operates. They can tell you what doesn’t make sense and what needs to be changed so that the average user knows what is going on.
Thank you and keep telling us what we are doing wrong. We do listen, and we are finding time to implement what people suggest.
