{"id":25403,"date":"2023-04-29T21:39:21","date_gmt":"2023-04-30T02:39:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=25403"},"modified":"2023-04-29T21:39:21","modified_gmt":"2023-04-30T02:39:21","slug":"a-demo-is-a-promise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=25403","title":{"rendered":"A demo is a promise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When you are creating a demo, there is the constant temptation to add more features. You need to resist this temptation.<\/p>\n<p>A demo is not a product. It&#8217;s a promise that there could be a product, which is a  very different thing.<\/p>\n<p>A product needs an undo option, a way to connect to a database, compatibility with various file formats, and many other things besides. That takes time and money.<\/p>\n<p>What the demo does is explain why that time and money should be expended. It is, more than anything else, a form of storytelling.<\/p>\n<p>Building a aemo building and building a product are two very different endeavors. They are complementary yet quite different parts of a larger process. It is important not to confuse the one with the other.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you are creating a demo, there is the constant temptation to add more features. You need to resist this temptation. A demo is not a product. It&#8217;s a promise that there could be a product, which is a very different thing. A product needs an undo option, a way to connect to a database, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=25403\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A demo is a promise&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25403"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25403"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25405,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25403\/revisions\/25405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}