I don”t want to be informed about the webpages you were thinking of building. It can only ever disappoint me that you never got around to building them. The philosophy of worse is better, of getting some kind of working prototype out there is a completely valid one. Something is definitely better than nothing.

But if your something is less than a working prototype, then please don’t tell people about it who are not involved with developing it. If what you’ve come up with is a good idea, then this is especially true.

If you have an idea for a product, service that I would actually be interested in, then telling me that you have had the idea, but not the conviction to actually complete it is worse than me thinking that you never thought of it in the first place. All that you will do is waste your users time & raise their expectations only to have those expectations dashed, and potential users irritated.

If it’s broke, don’t ship it.

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