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Jason Fried

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351 total appearances

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The Startup Ideas Podcast
The ultimate guide to product building with the man who changed software

I mean, some, some apps are just going to naturally be limited by their demand. It's like most people go like, I'm not what a sketch thing. That's like steam and I can't save anything and goes away. Like what? That's like, so that might naturally, you know, maybe there are 900 people in the world who find that interesting, but no, I like, I like the idea of, um,

The Startup Ideas Podcast
The ultimate guide to product building with the man who changed software

I mean, some, some apps are just going to naturally be limited by their demand. It's like most people go like, I'm not what a sketch thing. That's like steam and I can't save anything and goes away. Like what? That's like, so that might naturally, you know, maybe there are 900 people in the world who find that interesting, but no, I like, I like the idea of, um,

The Startup Ideas Podcast
The ultimate guide to product building with the man who changed software

I mean, it's kind of what we've been talking about at a different level, which is this idea of limits, like the real time limit. Like you're either there when it happens, you had to be there or it didn't happen. Yes. And this would be, you know, you either got it. I mean, one thing you could do, actually, you can put something in the app store, I believe, and then discontinue it.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
The ultimate guide to product building with the man who changed software

I mean, it's kind of what we've been talking about at a different level, which is this idea of limits, like the real time limit. Like you're either there when it happens, you had to be there or it didn't happen. Yes. And this would be, you know, you either got it. I mean, one thing you could do, actually, you can put something in the app store, I believe, and then discontinue it.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
The ultimate guide to product building with the man who changed software

I mean, it's kind of what we've been talking about at a different level, which is this idea of limits, like the real time limit. Like you're either there when it happens, you had to be there or it didn't happen. Yes. And this would be, you know, you either got it. I mean, one thing you could do, actually, you can put something in the app store, I believe, and then discontinue it.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
The ultimate guide to product building with the man who changed software

And then it would just stay on people's phones. I don't think that it's deleted. I know we almost certainly that's how that works. unless Apple's changed those rules, but I think there was a time when that was true. Maybe it's still true. So you could like disc, this is how like high-end watch brands create watches a collector's market. They'll make a limited number of watches.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
The ultimate guide to product building with the man who changed software

And then it would just stay on people's phones. I don't think that it's deleted. I know we almost certainly that's how that works. unless Apple's changed those rules, but I think there was a time when that was true. Maybe it's still true. So you could like disc, this is how like high-end watch brands create watches a collector's market. They'll make a limited number of watches.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
The ultimate guide to product building with the man who changed software

And then it would just stay on people's phones. I don't think that it's deleted. I know we almost certainly that's how that works. unless Apple's changed those rules, but I think there was a time when that was true. Maybe it's still true. So you could like disc, this is how like high-end watch brands create watches a collector's market. They'll make a limited number of watches.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
The ultimate guide to product building with the man who changed software

They won't necessarily be a limited edition. Sometimes there are limited editions. There's many of those. But 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.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
The ultimate guide to product building with the man who changed software

They won't necessarily be a limited edition. Sometimes there are limited editions. There's many of those. But 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.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
The ultimate guide to product building with the man who changed software

They won't necessarily be a limited edition. Sometimes there are limited editions. There's many of those. But 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.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
The ultimate guide to product building with the man who changed software

It's like we're going to make this and we're going to decide at some point that there's enough out there and we're going to support the collector community by making sure that this will never be made again and then it will hold value or whatever. So you could just discontinue things, not go into them with limited edition ideas, but just discontinue when you're done.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
The ultimate guide to product building with the man who changed software

It's like we're going to make this and we're going to decide at some point that there's enough out there and we're going to support the collector community by making sure that this will never be made again and then it will hold value or whatever. So you could just discontinue things, not go into them with limited edition ideas, but just discontinue when you're done.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
The ultimate guide to product building with the man who changed software

It's like we're going to make this and we're going to decide at some point that there's enough out there and we're going to support the collector community by making sure that this will never be made again and then it will hold value or whatever. So you could just discontinue things, not go into them with limited edition ideas, but just discontinue when you're done.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
The ultimate guide to product building with the man who changed software

Enough people have grabbed this. Enough people have downloaded this. We're done. It'd be cool, though, if there was some sort of secondhand trading market for apps you can't get anymore. Totally. I don't know how that would work. I don't think you could do that. But there's some fun stuff in there.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
The ultimate guide to product building with the man who changed software

Enough people have grabbed this. Enough people have downloaded this. We're done. It'd be cool, though, if there was some sort of secondhand trading market for apps you can't get anymore. Totally. I don't know how that would work. I don't think you could do that. But there's some fun stuff in there.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
The ultimate guide to product building with the man who changed software

Enough people have grabbed this. Enough people have downloaded this. We're done. It'd be cool, though, if there was some sort of secondhand trading market for apps you can't get anymore. Totally. I don't know how that would work. I don't think you could do that. But there's some fun stuff in there.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
The ultimate guide to product building with the man who changed software

Yeah, I think there's... You might say like, well, it happens and it's happening in the real world. That's great. The internet's different or software is different. Why it shouldn't happen here. It's not like fit to happen here. But I think, I think there's, I think there's some sort of deeper universal things to tap into here. Like mystery, surprise, uncertainty moments.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
The ultimate guide to product building with the man who changed software

Yeah, I think there's... You might say like, well, it happens and it's happening in the real world. That's great. The internet's different or software is different. Why it shouldn't happen here. It's not like fit to happen here. But I think, I think there's, I think there's some sort of deeper universal things to tap into here. Like mystery, surprise, uncertainty moments.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
The ultimate guide to product building with the man who changed software

Yeah, I think there's... You might say like, well, it happens and it's happening in the real world. That's great. The internet's different or software is different. Why it shouldn't happen here. It's not like fit to happen here. But I think, I think there's, I think there's some sort of deeper universal things to tap into here. Like mystery, surprise, uncertainty moments.