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At around 80%, you realize you'll never finish because there are always more features. This is the state of real businesses as well. No sustainable business is every truly finished.

You just have to hit minimum viable product and launch. Then you're adding features (or fixing bugs, doing maintenance) to that product.



This. Set quantifiable goals and when reached move on until you can't live without more changes.


Agree, this is where I am now. There are a ton of features planned but I can’t afford to develop them without first getting some customers to justify spending.


How do you know that it's 80% though, if there's no final state?


The point is that the imaginary % towards completion doesn't matter. You either have a viable product or you don't.




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