My friend @benedikt published a tale of him launching his product StageCMS.
It took him merely 10 years, so there are plenty of lessons in the article.
Cheers,
Christoph
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++ for @benedikt - a great guy with a great story. Looks like great software really does take 10 years!
I don’t know about that–maybe learning how to build and ship something people wanted took him 10 years. But we can clearly find examples to the contrary 
- Baremetrics
- Drip
- Bidsketch
etc.
Great article, though.
Yeah, I think we can all learn from negative examples as well - right?
I personally love the stories that are not all roses and rainbows.
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I’m clearly not the best example about how to launch a product. I learned a lot of stuff the hard way and only discovered communities like this one, blogs, books etc in the last 2-3 of years. Glad you liked the article 
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I dunno, Dave. Rob had a long, twisty road to get to Drip. Josh learned from his early successes with the Apple blog and the toy biz. Ruben went the lon way 'round as well, if I recall.
But OK, by the time they went into those businesses with all that hard-won knowledge, I’ll grant you that the software DID come around in record time! 
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@Christopher I guess it all depends on where we start counting, right? In Rob’s case, there were several businesses before Drip. Since Benedikt was talking about this one product, I looked at the comparison on a product-to-product basis. But yes, the hard won knowledge is the key, regardless of when we start measuring here. 
@benedikt: Well, we all have stories about failed products if we’re trying. Myself included. I’m just glad you found success and have a great story to tell on the other side.
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So I still have a year or 2 to go before I launch http://cadfindreplace.com.au/ …the earliest version I can find is at http://cadbloke.com/2011/08/18/cadtools-the-early-years/ - it’s the top one. Cool, I can slack off a bit.
NOT. Yeah, it is hard winning the knowledge. There are some shortcuts but some things can’t be cut short.
Thanks for the article.
