I'm Just Sayin...

codeacademy:

The idea guy is dead. We replaced him with the MVP hacker.

For anyone with a technical idea, eg. web app, mobile app, if you don’t learn to build it yourself to some degree, you’re losing out on a huge opportunity.

The goal isn’t to become the world’s best developer, instead learn enough to build the backbone of your product so you can start adding users. It’s pretty simple actually, there is no better way to test your product than by building it. I’m not talking wireframes, mockups or Photoshop. I mean real, hands-on development.

Outsourced products are open to same technical limitations as any other application, but you won’t know about them until you pay for them. Doing it yourself forces you to understand your apps limitations in a far more cost effective timeframe.

Learning to build it yourself is the easiest way to avoid feature creep, which is really easy when it’s just pen and paper. It also helps filter out which ideas you should build rather than want to. Especially for those of you with notebooks of ideas, struggling to figure out which app to pursue, learning to code allows you to spend a few days on each to really flesh them out.

Invest in yourself, you’ll be surprised at how much you can get done in just 3 months.