Something is wrong with teens. They are cooking too many dishes at one time. Badly failing, yet not looking at the problem. You simply can not pull out of a product, you poured your heart and mind into. You just can not give up.
Reason most products do not work, is not it is a wrong product. It is right, with few wrongs that need minor fixes. You find the neglected part, you fix it and your product will start churning money. The difficult part is growing discipline to be able to figure out the wrongs in an existing work.
Either the design is bad, or marketing is not done right, or ethics are flawed or reasons are not visible enough.
Stick with the product you are building, give it your everything; your heart, mind, soul. Make it ethical. Love it so that you are able to love your customers. And I assure you, it will work.
MVP is done Wrong — How to Fix it ?
MVP does not mean, your product does not find customers and you ditch it. You can not put your hard work into a trash bin. It is highly counter productive. You lose trust in yourself.
MVP is related to validating a fraction of your product. Keep reaching out to people, your targeted audience, and keep finding the right things missing. Once you find the missing parts, slowly validate them one by one. And in the pursuit of fixing the broken parts — you will have done your product right.
Apple became a brand after years of MVPs rightly validated. Google became a brand after years of innovations and hard work. It takes time to hit the golden buzzer. If it was so easy — every one would have built an Apple or Google.
I believe, if you are sincere with your product, and you are here because you have a passion for your product, you will understand this logic. But if you are here only for money, you might manage to run all the races, still you will feel a failure.
Internet is Influx of excessive information
Something is happening so quick, that kids are feeling they are losing opportunities. Every minute of doing nothing is felt a fortune wasted. This sense of urgency, is linked to excessive influx of information.
In my teens, in 90s in Pakistan, we were not enforced with making the choices. In fact, there were hardly any choices to cherry pick from. It was a simple way of living, and the first choice presented, was a responsibility.
I performed excellent in my Matriculation, in my College and in my University. While there was no noise, making friends, attending lectures and wasting time in evenings was perfectly ok. Everyone appreciated it.
But with the influx of information, every job post falling on my timeline, I and like me the millennials feel, we are losing money.
The millennial problem is not advancements in technology. It is a good sign we are moving forward and things are faster. It is our parents / teachers / elders, not teaching us the right way to use the technology. We instead of investing ourselves into technology, become a victim of technology and start consuming it.
Internet becomes addiction. And slowly, without even knowing the flaws, we start losing confidence in our own self. And with shattered confidence, everything becomes foggy. It leads to us, ditching our products in much fewer attempts.
— A little Self Talk —
The product was perfectly fine. Teenagers were growing perfectly fine. Things were happening ok. Life was good. Then some people started blowing whistles, hooters and drum beats. It became so noisy, that nobody’s noise is heard by nobody. Every body turned into just another meat of flesh, a like, a vote, or a number. Underneath, we all forgot, each person was special. Each client was a guest. And each second invested on our own life was worth cheering some days down the road.
Conclusion
Millennials only problem is; they are unable to feel fulfilled. Even when they are right, the noise of internet is hiding it from themselves, and they are losing their hard earned confidence.
