What's the worst product you've ever built?
Chris W
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I've built a lot of products in my life. When I look back, some of them were comically bad ideas. I'll start:
A decentralized social media platform (a thousand people have tried this)
An augmented reality company (before there were any usable augmented reality headsets)
What are yours?
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Jon Wesselink@jonwesselink
I'm an award-winning filmmaker, and my first gen of making commercial videos was all over the place, but one that was reoccurring was outstandingly bad.
I'd pair with a dance studio - their niche was relaxed, no pressure, no stress. That also meant no commitments and no practice.
What I didn't realize is that the lack of pressure in these dancers turned my 2-minute video from 6 hours of editing into 200 hours of editing to dodge all the bad moves and cover up mistakes.
10/10 would not do again 💀
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@jonwesselink Hahah that's a great story. It's a classic example of - "Future me will deal with that"
If the founders of Airbnb had given up a bit earlier, it would also have gone down as a comically bad idea - have people pay to sleep over on an air mattress in your house 😅
Bad ideas can foster amazing companies and the other way around.
I once created a Facebook before Facebook existed, it was meant to digitally meetup with your bar friends… and it design was a bit puke 🤮inspired.
Ah, the classic "learning experiences" in product development. Your examples remind me of my early attempts at creating a self-cooking oven and a teleportation app (spoiler: they didn't quite pan out). It's all in the name of innovation, right?