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Here's an example of why you cannot get caught up in analysis paralysis or perfection purgatory.

Last week I launched a FREE article submission piece of software. You would think: who is going to complain about free?

Here's a direct quote I received on my feedback handler:

The open source support wording makes me want to pay someone for their product and have them support it…like a professional company. Free sucks ! Capitalism rules ! Sell it, support it.

If I would have sold the product, I would have received complaints about me modifying an open source tool and selling it…

As it was, I received the following:

I consider it a dirty trick to offer a supposedly great software for "free", then after a body accepts to tell them they probably won't be able to use it without instructions … that you'll provide at a price.

You can never please everybody. As the quotes above so aptly demonstrate. So don't try!

Make a product, service, what have you. Set it free in the wild and get feedback. If it's constructive, use it. If not, don't.

You just cannot spend the time worrying about someone saying something bad about your product, because no matter how great it is and close to perfect it is, someone will.  That's why we call them complainers…

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