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Fried: I never think about user acquisition when evaluating new product ideas
“How much are you thinking about how am I going to get the first 100,000 people to download this?
Jason Fried: I don't think about that at all.
Jason Fried: For me, it's like is the idea any good?”
Fried: The software industry is too serious and takes itself too seriously
“And this is not fair because there are, there's plenty of like fun software, but a lot of the, a lot of it is the software industry is too serious. It takes itself too seriously.”
Fried: Digital sketching apps suffer from permanence and cluttered toolbars
“One of the things that bugs me about sketching apps is how permanent they are. I know you can delete in the whole thing, but like, there's just tools, there's tools everywhere.”
Fried: Discontinuing apps after production runs creates collector value like luxury watches
“Like Patek Philippe, for example, will make a watch for six years or for four years and then just discontinue it. So it wasn't like we're going to make a thousand and just, it's like, we're going to make this and we're going to decide at some point that there'…”
Fried: Modern software design aesthetics feel cold and clinical
“In a way that I find a lot of software to be very clinical and cold, especially like modern design aesthetics. A lot of stuff just feels very cold and clinical. So I think you can bring a little bit of like, this feels warm.”
Fried: A daily scratch-off ad app could become an international phenomenon
“Now, I think this could be huge, actually. I think a lot of people would do it. I think it could be like an international phenomenon kind of thing, because it's so stupid and simple, and like, why not?”
Fried: Sketching on steamy shower doors inspires my product interface designs
“I draw interfaces all the time on shower doors. That's where a lot of my, like, product interface ideas come from.”