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...codiles to help make the product ready for others. People need to crawl through broken glass to use it. The more that someone crawls through broken glass, the more they grind it smooth for others to follow them after. But that requires a real...
...patience and give up. Agents have infinite patience, so they will crawl through broken glass if necessary.
...tartup, don't do it! You need to want to do it even if you had to crawl through broken glass. Otherwise you'll find yourself questioning or even resenting your decision when you run into hardships. But if you want to do it no matter what, the...
...Vibecoding that joyful creation audience has grown 100x . Because the amount of broken glass has gone down by an order of magnitude. But even so, most people will never get joy from coding. Software for most people will always be a means to a...
...our product solves. People with their hair on fire are willing to crawl through broken glass to put it out. People who are merely curious will give up at the slightest pain.
...of horizontal use cases that aren't possible today. People are crawling through broken glass and don't realize there's another way. Also there is a lot of glass not worth crawling through that they aren't even bothering with because the pain ...
... to cook." This is exapting a chat thread into something else. Crawling through broken glass. What if there were a tool that helped you maintain this context and deploy it?
For enterprise use cases employees are willing to crawl through broken glass of CRUD workflows. Because they are forced by their employers to, and there's more downside risk. Consumers have lower standards for quality, and als...
...eamrollers paving the way for others.[pl] The first users have to crawl through broken glass to get where they want to go. But if they are steamrollers, crushing the glass into a road of pebbles for others, they make it easier for other users...
...quickly when the want is strong enough. That's easy to activate by reducing the broken glass users have to crawl through, making the want stronger.
...about it much. Real platforms do this by watching what developers crawl through broken glass to do and then making it so the next person with that use case doesn't have to crawl through so much broken glass.
...d on PUNCH CARDS??!" But people did it even though it was like crawling through broken glass because it was the only way to get those valuable results. There was no better way, so you did it without thinking. What are the things that are like...
...nal data to vibe code on. People want it so badly that they're crawling through broken glass to get it. Using tools like Cursor plus MCP to hack it together. Someone will figure out how to make it easy, and be something that can make your dat...
...big vision and find it deeply motivating." Because you'll need to crawl through broken glass together. That's only going to work if everyone really cares about what's on the other side. Love of your fellow crawlers doesn't get you to crawl th...
...d then if they like it, you can ramp up your outbound marketing, and reduce the broken glass to expand to a larger audience. You get the benefit of the upside if it's good, and self-capping downside if it's not. This lets you sample how possi...
Reducing the amount of broken glass to crawl through creates value. People with a high pain tolerance in that domain won't understand it: "you can still do the thing you could have done...
...hink this thing sucks but if you want to use it feel free to crawl through this broken glass" and it sucks the user can't blame the creator. That makes the thing more resilient to the downside risk of users having such a bad time that they ne...
.... Joining in requires going through a gauntlet: crawling through some amount of broken glass. Maybe the product is very rough around the edges of hard to use. This is a naturally-occurring gauntlet for the first release of products! Or maybe ...
...azy! But assume that they see something others do not. They're crawling through broken glass based on the strength of that conviction and the value the behavior creates for them. Look at what the user is doing and try to steelman it. What if ...