James Cundle

James Cundle

Shoulda been a DJ… 🎧
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About

Multiple x technical co-founder. CTO of Mio. Currently working on FansFir.st; Helping independent music artists get their music heard.

Work

Founder & Leadership at FansFir.st

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Maker History

  • Message.io
    Message.io
    Seamlessly chat with external contacts
    Mar 2018
  • Message.io
    Message.io
    Bots that work everywhere
    Nov 2016
  • Prompt
    Prompt
    The command line for the real world
    Jan 2016
  • 🎉
    Joined Product HuntApril 28th, 2015

Forums

Founders in stealth / pre-launch - why? (+ dinner in SF!)

It used to be fashionable to be "in stealth," but then our collective wisdom shifted to "launch early and launch often." In my experience, there are two good reasons for this:

The first reason is that it's often more important to figure out whether people want what you're building than it is to figure out whether you can build the best possible version of it. Launching early gives you the opportunity to either pivot or iterate quickly. Launching is learning.

Founders in stealth / pre-launch - why? (+ dinner in SF!)

It used to be fashionable to be "in stealth," but then our collective wisdom shifted to "launch early and launch often." In my experience, there are two good reasons for this:

The first reason is that it's often more important to figure out whether people want what you're building than it is to figure out whether you can build the best possible version of it. Launching early gives you the opportunity to either pivot or iterate quickly. Launching is learning.

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