You may have an idea for making a product. You may build a version of it. But unless you have a chance to continuously work on it, it dies on the way. To make your product live you need people paying for it. That is when you get the time to move from that initial idea to a more concrete usable product. Google when it started threw some better links at you. Not like the way it can answer questions as it is today. It has taken two decades to reach that point. This happens with scale. You need a large number of interested users to reach this point where the demand on your application is continuously increasing to make the original idea better.
Product thinking
Product thinking
Product thinking
You may have an idea for making a product. You may build a version of it. But unless you have a chance to continuously work on it, it dies on the way. To make your product live you need people paying for it. That is when you get the time to move from that initial idea to a more concrete usable product. Google when it started threw some better links at you. Not like the way it can answer questions as it is today. It has taken two decades to reach that point. This happens with scale. You need a large number of interested users to reach this point where the demand on your application is continuously increasing to make the original idea better.