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		hermitcrab on March 17, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Let there be more biographies of failures If you read these 13 stories of failed software products that I collected you'll see that they have quite a lot in common: https://successfulsoftware.net/2010/05/27/learning-lessons-f... Also, hanging out on forums for software entrepreneurs, I see people making the same standard mistakes again and again.

marshmallow_12 on March 17, 2021 [–]

can you tell me some of them?

hermitcrab on March 17, 2021 | [–]

Off the top of my head:

Not doing market research.

Taking too long to release v1.

Not spending enough time on marketing.

Lifetime licenses.

Obsessing over piracy.

See also: https://successfulsoftware.net/2009/07/21/ten-mistakes-micro...

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