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Tell me the truth... Are you really satisfied wth your Final product you are selling?

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Guys and Girls,

Here is my never ending dilemma and a grey area that I struggle about.

I feel like I need to improve my own products (Ofcourse nothing wrong with that). I feel like adding some features and clients have asked some ... So pretty much my products are in development continuously since 2003. I am pretty happy about that.

But this is where my question kicks in ... "When am I going to stop this? This is like never endng. Why can't I be statisfied like other software vendors?" (Because last week when I asked a mercant from whom I bought a software for my PC about a feature, he said - 'Development for that product was stopped and no features wll be added. Only bug fixes can be done quarterly.')

So it is foolish to improve ONLY ONE product of mine instead of concentrating other methods of income?

Realy need some feedback on this.

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      Originally Posted by BIG Mike View Post

      ... except that you should be doing this with multiple products.
      Mike, seems pretty simple but limited tme at hand is a very big no-no for these types of multiple projects. Right? Because I started couple of them last year, but couldn't hold on to them like I expected.

      I will try again in the new year coming.

      Thanks for the WF blog link.

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        Originally Posted by BIG Mike View Post

        What you're doing is called an Engineered Model - You're not doing anything wrong
        That's a bold statement and big assumption.

        How do we know this is not a psychological problem, called "perfectionism?"

        "A propensity for being displeased with anything that is not perfect or does not meet extremely high standards."
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          Originally Posted by MaskedMarketer View Post

          That's a bold statement and big assumption.

          How do we know this is not a psychological problem, called "perfectionism?"

          "A propensity for being displeased with anything that is not perfect or does not meet extremely high standards."
          First: As I said above in my answer to Mike, time is very big deal to me.

          Second: It seems you don't understand my question: The little time I have, rather than spending on only one product, I rather spending my time on many products? If I will spend on only one product, that is not ending anywhere.

          Anyway thanks for your diagnosis, Doctor! I guess I saved my doctor fee.:rolleyes:

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            Originally Posted by radhika View Post

            First: As I said above in my answer to Mike, time is very big deal to me.

            Second: It seems you don't understand my question: The little time I have, rather than spending on only one product, I rather spending my time on many products? If I will spend on only one product, that is not ending anywhere.

            Anyway thanks for your diagnosis, Doctor! I guess I saved my doctor fee.:rolleyes:
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              Originally Posted by BIG Mike View Post

              Consider this - Microsoft has spent 20 or so years developing Windows. They're no where near finished with it and probably never will be.

              What should be driving your decision is whether or not the product is making you money consistently. If not, scrap it and move on. If so, then keep going with it.
              Good point Mike. May be I ought to divert little of that time to other income sources, I guess.

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            Originally Posted by BIG Mike View Post

            Because according to his OP, he has released it...both he and clients have asked for improvements. That's a perfectly normal part of the development cycle...if it weren't, we'd all still be driving Model T's, LOL. That's some heavy psycho babble dude...you sure got a lot more out of the OP than I did.
            "So pretty much my products are in development continuously since 2003. "

            You cleared it up            ! I actually thought the product wasn't "officially" out.

            The way the Op phrased it made me think it wasn't even out yet!

            I see that is was released to clients, but my misunderstanding came in that its been in development for 6 years. Im not a software guy, so my lingo may be off? lol

            I thought this person had some serious problems just DEVELOPING the product for six years. I was in shock actually.

            To the op: looks like we both misunderstood each other- good luck with your software developing!
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              The marketplace evolves all the time why shouldn't your products
              do the samething?

              By improving it you can go back and charge more or use those
              improvements as an extra selling point for your products...

              And anytime you look as your product as perfect then you've already
              lost the race and someone else will just come in a dominate that niche
              just like Microsoft did to apple...and any other company that tries to
              compete with them...

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                Originally Posted by David_Thompson View Post

                The marketplace evolves all the time why shouldn't your products
                do the samething?

                By improving it you can go back and charge more or use those
                improvements as an extra selling point for your products...

                And anytime you look as your product as perfect then you've already
                lost the race and someone else will just come in a dominate that niche
                just like Microsoft did to apple...and any other company that tries to
                compete with them...

                --David
                Point taken David.

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      Originally Posted by MaskedMarketer View Post

      They are in fact improving the product, always. So are you. The only difference is, you keep the program to yourself, while others allow there customers to tell them what needs to be improved and fixed. And the other companies profit and evolve quicker than you.
      I didn't say I kept the product to myself I said I am mostly (rather completely) concentrating on one (only one) product to improve it, which certainly be not advisable?

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        Originally Posted by radhika View Post

        I didn't say I kept the product to myself I said I am mostly (rather completely) concentrating on one (only one) product to improve it, which certainly be not advisable?
        You also said this:

        Originally Posted by radhika View Post

        I feel like I need to improve my own products ....I feel like adding some features... my products are in development continuously since 2003.

        "When am I going to stop this? This is like never endng. Why can't I be statisfied like other software vendors?"
        The quote above disturbs me.

        Big mike suggest its "Engineered" - While this may be true, you don't have a clear plan.

        - but the fact that you have to ask US, "When am I going to stop this" signals to me that this isn't part of the "plan". You say "its never ending." So this is never ending, and you're asking us when its going to end?

        Its your product and you're business, and you don't know this? Thats scary, because you don't have a plan in place. If you had a plan in place, you would know when it will end.

        How "Engineered" can this be, if you don't even have a plan? If you don't know when it ends, you don't have a plan.

        To me, this may be "perfectionism" and is NOT good.

        What is immediately stopping you, RIGHT NOW, from releasing the product?
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