Zed Shaw’s recent article in Hacker Monthly just made me buy a print subscription.
“I believe that the current crop of “products” created by Product People are in for a big crash. They’ll eventually have such huge cost overruns that they’ll never turn a profit. There of course are complexities in that statement because of economies of scale in hosting, but all these cheap cloud services do is stave off the inevitable. If your product is entirely focused on the user experience (revenue stream) and not the operations (cost reduction) then you’ll have a hard time turning a real profit.
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Your end users are Product People. You need to toss out this stupid idea that making something usable by DHH fanbois means you’re not HARD CORE.
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The shift in thinking is to focus on usability as if it ware a linguistic concern rather than a graphical concern. Product People focus on the design and interaction of their product through graphics because that’s how their customers have to interact with what they make.
Long Beards need to focus on the design and interaction of their product through linguistics because that’s how Product People interact with infrastructure software.”
Originally published at http://sheddingbikes.com/posts/1285436217.html
