I get a lot of people coming up to me who have an idea for an iPhone app and have no idea of how much work it is to implement the idea. I wish they’d spend more time figuring out implementing the idea and less on trying to pitch it to other people.
I’d guess these people have never taken an idea and turned it into a product. I’ve done it many times, it’s a lot of work, and you don’t know if the idea is going to work until you actually start implementing. What they have is just the seed of an idea, and only when you actually start making something, such as sketches, code, and prototypes, and flesh the idea out, do you start to have something.
It’s very easy to say how something will work, but until you have a working prototype, you haven’t tested that it will actually work.
Lucius Kwok of Felt Tip has been posting very insightful stuff. (h/t marco) And I definitely agree with this sentiment! A paragraph of prose is hardly a product, and it’s got to change a lot on the way. Otherwise, we’d all be able to package things off to Elance (or computers, in the future) so easily and so quickly.
It’s like saying that “fixing computers” is easy. YMMV.
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