Jan 7, 2012
An Analogy To Explain Why Ideas Are Worthless
Ideas for web/mobile apps are like ideas for paintings.
I could pitch the idea of painting a woman with a half smile and no one would care. At best they’d be interested to see how it turned out. But no one would decide whether or not the painting was good or bad before it was actually done.
The hard part about building a good app lies in the brush work, the emotion, the proportions, the composition - the execution. Not the idea.
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I'm a designer at Olark. I started Thoughtback (a private idea journal for iPhone and Mac) and Hackers & Hustlers (a group of Michigan-connected startup folks).
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