As my team and I build out version 1.0 of Terralanes for our 2021 launch, I've been taking meetings with potential customers on a daily basis to share our vision and build relationships with the market.
The positive feedback we have received has been very encouraging, but we're also getting a lot of ideas about integrations, features, and more "meat and potatoes" that we could include in the system as well.
It seems as if there is a seesaw between building more and launching on time. Previously, my thoughts have been to get what we deem as version 1.0 of Terralanes out to the market and prove our concept, but now I'm left thinking that maybe we should integrate with this or that or build an extra feature because of a couple of insightful meetings.
I'm curious to hear what everyone thinks of this balance between the feeling that the product isn't ready (we should build more, more, and more) and the steadfast startup advice that these early conversations always produce these thoughts and that we should launch on time while considering why were these potential customers recommending what they recommended.
Let me know your thoughts below.
I would say to launch as early as possible - a rough product on the market is more valuable to your users than an unpublished but more robust product on your hard drive.
+1 to launching as early as possible and remember that people lie to please you, the only way to really validate something is to get those paying customers in.