Paul Buchheit—original devel­oper of Gmail and Google AdSense, founder of Friend­Feed—dis­cusses how projects can obtain ‘overnight suc­cess’.

This notion of overnight suc­cess is very mis­lead­ing, and rather harm­ful. If you’re start­ing some­thing new, expect a long jour­ney. That’s no excuse to move slow though. To the con­trary, you must move very fast, oth­er­wise you will never arrive, because it’s a long jour­ney! This is also why it’s impor­tant to be fru­gal — you don’t want to starve to death half the way up the mountain.

He has also writ­ten another excel­lent post on a num­ber of impor­tant devel­op­ment aspects he learnt while writ­ing Gmail.

via Cod­ing Hor­ror (itself, an excel­lent post)