Kindle Notes & Highlights
The reality is that ideas are useless unless they solve a problem. Customers will pay for solving a problem, an outcome, not an idea.
try to find out the number of features defined from the start of the project and compare it to the number of features that were actually built. If the number of features built is roughly the same or more as the number of features defined, the product is probably unhealthy. If the number of features built is less, someone has been thinking, prioritizing and eliminating biases.
For just testing out an idea, a rule of thumb is that you should be able to do this in less than 10% of the time it would take to build, test and deploy.