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one of the best builder interviews that @splits has published, because @rish does 👏 not 👏 miss 👏

"You as a founder have to believe in something that you think is lower-risk than the rest of the market."

https://splits.org/blog/ship-first-commit-later/

@rish how do you think about marketing & monitoring the feature during this "wait and see" window?

building farcaster infra @ /neynar 🪐 | casting @ /rish

we are actually very bad at marketing, we talk about all our features once when we launch them and kinda never loop back to them. one of my personal goals is to get better at this (and this is a good reminder). if someone uses it later, it's because they literally found it and not because we've been marketing it. 

we set up monitoring in two ways:
- quantitative: anything we ship on the backend emits the simplest metrics to datadog, so it always has a heartbeat and we know if someone used it
- qualitative: very early products are likely to have more bugs because they haven't stabilized yet. if someone uses it, they will hopefully reach out (we try to make ourselves as available as possible)

once there's enough usage, we will do the work to add more quantitative monitoring

i'm annoyed user turned fan. it's great at what it does and now I have more empathy re: why the UI is the way it is.

I still think an AI version of it where you could just ask questions and it gave you the right stuff to look at would do well.