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@raulcraven Well I agree to the fact that the examples could be more relevant (again, restricted because these would really best be known by founders and will be specific to their industries) but I don't agree to you thinking this mindset is not common or cannot cause big issues for startups...

@raulcraven As expected, you didn't read the full post and are commenting something irrelevant. And I mentioned this above the examples because I knew people would misinterpret the message. Refer again to this - "Note, the point is not that products die due to just building one extra "fancy" or...

@raulcraven The message isn't the examples, it's the mindset. There will be countless other industry specific tarpit features the startup might work on which will waste a lot of their time only to eventually be realized it was never needed I don't think working on unnecessary features should be...

@motherofone Yeah the examples are really just starting points for people to start thinking of the kinds of features that can be completely irrelevant at an early stage. Each startup will also have its own industry specific tarpit features which only they'll be able to tell

As we all know, YCombinator is the most successful startup accelerator in the world having funded over 5,000+ startups with over 5% of them converting to unicorns 🤯 What’s one of their key success enablers? Avoiding “tarpit ideas”. This post will explore what the term "tarpit idea" means, and...