DHH: The luxury of working without metrics

"Half the charm of making something to me is in letting your fingers drive the direction"

It is easy to say this when you run a highly successful company with a highly successful product generating lots of revenue and profits.

Not everyone is in that state yet. And until you do I think you better understand your product and users through ... some kind of metrics?

(I ended that with a question mark - I am genuinely interested to hear of people generally subscribe to this "just build it and they will come" approach)

Or maybe he is conflating Metrics and KPIs and A/B testing? The post is a bit all over the place ...

Yet another contrarian nonsense from DHH - one medium successful product doesn’t give them so much credibility to dismiss what everyone else does.