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But on the other hand, ahe, but if you release your product early to the public when it's not solid enough would that help to build user confidence?

Stuart,

If I may I'd like to inject a single word, PASSIONATE, in front of "young entrepreneurs".

On a related note, you're doing the community a great service, thank you.

Probably some institution would find its use as well for it provides another entry point via its data organization. "Simplicity", no prob, the real deal might be the challenge of value projection especially when it's too obvious.

I believe Tom Markiewicz's main theme on this particular blog is about the importance of Usability, which I share. And I would think speed is also extremely important, again allow me to use the particular little web app I developed lately as a case, it was slow, frankly quite slow, my suspicion was on three possibilities, my box's security? my code is not optimized? db not well designed? And I knew I'm strong in the last two, so, I tackled the first suspect first, well, didn't find anything wrong, then I reexamined the other two, and late this afternoon I found the culprit, a humongous db log file laying around (it wasn't obvious). Man, now you know what lighting speed means. Sorry I'm getting off the topic.

Tom,

Very interesting observation about web usability. I think lots of times software engineers simply can't put themselves in user's shoes, I, for one among other things, had such an experience myself, a user reported "I'm confused" (for which I'm grateful), I thought, it's so simple and straightforward because it's a simple app. Looking forward to reading more on this topic.

Don