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As a business person it's fiscal suicide to release a product for which there is no market. Most people see more benefit from a mediocre mechanic than a world-class buggy whip manufacture.

If the people who will see your product on the first iteration are the majority of your potential customers then chances are your business is a failure anyway.

How many of us think less of PG because HN uses tables?

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Trying to do both.

"How many of us think less of PG because HN uses tables?"

I understand your point, but I think that is more of a implementation of features, rather than which features make it in for first release.

Its a valid point that if the first few users are the majority then you are in trouble. I would hope that the first few users/adopters however would become my biggest cheerleaders thus contributing to a snowball effect of new users.

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