Deploying something useless into production, as soon as you can, is the right way to start a new project. It pulls unknown risk forward, opens up parallel streams of work, and establishes good habits. I spend a fair amount of time helping engineering teams with the initial build and release of a product. There’s one piece of advice that I find myself giving consistently during the very early days: get the simplest version you can think of into prod, as soon as you can. Focus solely on what...
