I had the very same thought.
This mentality is fine if you don't want to (or have to) maintain and support anything—and from looking around the author's site, it appears he makes dozens of small things and then leaves them to rot.
This mentality is fine if you don't want to (or have to) maintain and support anything—and from looking around the author's site, it appears he makes dozens of small things and then leaves them to rot.
Things change fast in software. It's one thing if you're building the backend system behind a billion dollar bank. Obviously that's not what the author is talking about.
If you're trying to make the next Angry Birds, or Facebook, or Google, you need to get something out there now, the MVP, and iterate.