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However, in order to easily test various things, you need to have a lot of people/datapoints to work with.

I don't know, I've built lots of things that look amazing in my head, but appear far less amazing once I've actually implemented it. While I am just a single data point, the process can provide enough information to realize that it was a bad idea.

I will agree that having more data points has its place, but building it just for yourself is often worth it.



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