> The only way to know whether a new idea will work is to try it: put some minimal form of it in front of people and see if they actually get use it.
And then get skewered left and right for shutting down products? You can't have it both ways.
And then get skewered left and right for shutting down products? You can't have it both ways.
Fast forward to today and 10x to 1000x the number of us wonks are getting an overlapping amount of Reader's value (plus new value) from Twitter. The purging of Reader is a distant memory, but it doesn't mean it's necessarily bad to try a bunch of things and kill the non-viral losers (in a relative sense).