Act, Asses, Adjust!
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Tested my prototype today with my brother. It's a spool for pool drain hoses, and he happens to be the target market. I spent weeks making this thing, it's PERFECT IN EVERY WAY, I thought. Then he tried it, and man was I wrong. "its grinding..did you know about that?...it's hard to feed it through...wow this is so much faster but, oh yeah by the way it would get destroyed in my truck, it would be nice if you could detach the wheel part and you could stack them up neatly like you already do without it, you know?"
I got some work to do...
A key Fastlane principle.
Tested my prototype today with my brother. It's a spool for pool drain hoses, and he happens to be the target market. I spent weeks making this thing, it's PERFECT IN EVERY WAY, I thought. Then he tried it, and man was I wrong. "its grinding..did you know about that?...it's hard to feed it through...wow this is so much faster but, oh yeah by the way it would get destroyed in my truck, it would be nice if you could detach the wheel part and you could stack them up neatly like you already do without it, you know?"
I got some work to do...
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