Building A Successful Product

These days, I find myself pondering on the next article to write on. At first, I wanted to write about best practices to utilize during rate limiting. I was going to write about different ways to implement rate limiting using Node Js and then buttress on the limitations of each approach.

On second thought, I realised I wasn’t doing anything new, as much as I wanted to sound new and different, these things exist already and even if I end up convincing my readers that I have a world-best approach to it, it still wasn’t new.

Then something hit me, is there anything new under the sun in 2020? Aren’t we all just re-inventing the wheel?

On a much deeper thought, I realised the most successful products we use today,- talk of Facebook, Instagram, Paystack were not new ideas. It was simply a mix of different ingredients ranging from providing new ways to do old things, evolving themselves, to right positioning and even sheer luck.

So, what point am I trying to make? No point actually, just trying to say some things you know but probably don’t realise.

It is about the right moment and can you recognise it?

Back then in school, my head of department would say open your mind. While I have attached a personal meaning to it, only he can say what he truly meant.