I love this post by Seth Godin ‘‘Scrappy’ is not the same as ‘crappy’‘. Seth is an advocate of shipping fast, as soon as it is presentable (a ‘minimum viable product’ approach of sorts). We should still not ship crappy stuff, but his view is that scrappy is good enough.
“The only choice is to launch before you’re ready. Before it’s perfect. Before it’s 100% proven to be no risk to you.”
Seth then introduces the concept of scrappy: “Scrappy means that while it’s unpolished, it’s better than good enough.”
It is always tough to know whether what we put in the spotlight of public interest is good enough or whether we are spending too much time trying to polish it. I love the scrappy approach. Another measure to show to the world what you are doing earlier than what you thought.
