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I'm a graphic designer working on a startup in the beer industry. I've been reading Hacker News for a few years. This is a new account as I think my last one was flagged/blacklisted. I like to learn from my mistakes.

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release early but don't release too early...I did and in a way I feel it's coming back to hurt me. I approached my first merchant with the idea of running trail test and told them I was mainly looking for some customer feedback. They agreed to help out but I got more media coverage than expected and that's where things took an unexpected turn. I was upfront that my product was not ready for the masses and that I just needed to see how it worked in the real world so I could perfect the product. I was also upfront that my development skills would limit the growth of the product and that I was hoping to attract the attention of a technical co-founder and maybe an investor. We ran the test run, I got my feedback and I even talked with a few investors. I Then went back into development, made the changes (took longer than I thought) and now my first customer is most likely not going to stay with the product. They made $360, I made $72. I did however find a technical co-founder:)