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You need eyeballs first
written by Allan Branch on December 9th, 2009
Recently I had a conversation with a friend who runs a small web consultancy and is looking for some consulting work.
Him - "I am going to redesign my site, maybe that will help generate leads".
Me - "Who's coming to your site?"
Him - "Yeah good point."
3 Responses to “You need eyeballs first”
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Totally.
I’ve looked for and purchased design services quite a few times over the last 10 years. When I get to a web designers site, I’m looking for a clean/well structured simple site. And then I’m looking to see what they’ve worked on – their portfolio. I’m not looking for much from their site (content breadth wise), but it can’t suck.
So yes, “good enough” is a very important concept. Get active and network once your site is good enough. Commenting on these types of posts is a good start. Lord knows most open source projects need some design help. Heck, I’m looking for some free design help right now – in return for kudos and recognition.
To the point!- Cool.
From perspective of product dev, I think there is only one way to build successful web-apps, create a minimum viable feature(which can be product itself), go get the eyeballs to see if the feature makes sense for a considerable mass, then add eye candy. (my observations are here http://l.whol.ly/tzgrh) If you aren’t doing this , you are increasing chances of failure anyway.
Many islands in the South Pacific were not mapped until just the last century. Most were uninhabited and nobody knew they existed.
Websites are similar. Most are uninhabited (static content) and off the internet radar (not linked to anything of value).
None of us can afford to be islands in the vast and expanding internet ocean.