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Shipping nothing is nothing to sneeze at. Delivering a blank page to production means you’ve made a lot of important decisions. You must take risky actions early, which is the best time to take risks. And once you’ve shipped software that does nothing, making it do something is easy.

It’s fun to read this article because I came to a similar conclusion recently with a couple side-projects. Typically with my side-projects I never get to the point where I’m ready to ship. So then, I simple don’t ever ship anything. They gather dust in that code directory on my machine.

However, with still and another recent project, one of the first things I did before there was any meaningful functionality was get them deployed to the public internet. Suddenly that unlocked this clarity where I knew what features to work on next and which ones to ignore because I was actually using the thing.