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DHH: The luxury of working without metrics

by yblu on 5/24/23, 6:24 PM with 3 comments

  • by st3fan on 5/24/23, 6:53 PM

    "Half the charm of making something to me is in letting your fingers drive the direction"

    It is easy to say this when you run a highly successful company with a highly successful product generating lots of revenue and profits.

    Not everyone is in that state yet. And until you do I think you better understand your product and users through ... some kind of metrics?

    (I ended that with a question mark - I am genuinely interested to hear of people generally subscribe to this "just build it and they will come" approach)

    Or maybe he is conflating Metrics and KPIs and A/B testing? The post is a bit all over the place ...

  • by cangencer on 5/24/23, 8:25 PM

    Yet another contrarian nonsense from DHH - one medium successful product doesn’t give them so much credibility to dismiss what everyone else does.