If you haven't already, check out the oft-referenced book "The Principles of Product Development Flow". Based on this comment you'd really like it.

http://www.startuplessonslearned.com/2009/07/principles-of-p...

Seems like some of the same ideas in Donald Reinertsen presents in his books and videos. He thinks in queues and the cost of delay.

The cost of delay when you try to keep everyone busy all the time.

I'm reading his book The Principles of Product Development Flow.

Some of the same ideas, like cost of delay, are presented in The Principles of Product Development Flow.

We're a bootstrapped team of 2. We don't find people thinking like this. It was a question. I answered in the affirmative.

We have bet all our savings on saying a bold YES to this question. I think we have the right to comment here. We've spent a good 15 months thinking about this problem.

We've read a ton of material. From the Principles of Product Development Flow to Joel Spolsky's article on Evidence-based Scheduling, distilling everything down into our product.

When you make something, and run into trouble finding early adopters, I'd like to hear all your thoughts on self-promotion.