An ode to iterations and why they matter
Transmission #40 from Jupiter Dispatch
Time: 3.50 Minutes
Last week I saw this answer of Nikita Bier at X and started thinking, because I know that feeling…
He’s right, too many companies are obsessed with perfection from day one. They spend years in stealth mode polishing a product no one's even seen yet.
This is the dumbest possible strategy and here’s why…
The v1 of anything is complete garbage. Everyone who's built something knows this but nobody wants to admit it.
Your first app? Trash UI with security holes.
First rocket launch? Exploded on the pad.
First novel? Rejected by 47 agents.
First relationship? Emotional nightmare.
It's amazing how people don't get the pattern.
The first Tesla was just a Lotus with batteries crammed in. Now they're building Cybertrucks.
Falcon 1 failed THREE TIMES before reaching orbit. Now SpaceX lands boosters on drone ships like it's nothing.
Iterations > ideas.
Your brilliant idea is worthless without the willingness to watch it crash and burn multiple times.
The secret isn't starting with perfection – it's surviving until v3.
v1 = absolute trash that barely works
v2 = slightly less embarrassing
v3 = finally not complete garbage
v4 = actually good
People worship "the perfect product" but ignore "the dumb way to perfect"
Companies that understand this dominate.
Early Facebook was just a Harvard student directory. Early Amazon just sold books.
Both were objectively terrible compared to what they became through brutal iteration.
The real 10x engineers aren't the ones who write perfect code on the first try. They're the ones who ship garbage fast, learn aggressively, and iterate relentlessly.
Your v1 should embarrass you later. If it doesn't, you waited too long to ship.
The people who make nothing always have the loudest opinions…
Ignore them. They don't understand that creation is messy.
Build → Launch → Learn → Improve → Repeat
It's not rocket science, but even rocket science follows this pattern.
So stay curious and iterate.
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