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Being early doesn’t just let the New Jersey approach win in the marketplace, it also allows it to collect feedback much, much earlier and much more quickly than the MIT approach.\n\nPaul MacCready won the first [Kremer prize](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kremer_prize) not by initially setting out to build the best human-powered aircraft, but by building the one that was easiest to repair in order to gather feedback more quickly. While other teams took a year or more to recover from a crash, his plane sometimes flew again the same day. And so it was exactly this willingness to lose sight of the prize that resulted in him winning it.\n\nIn much the same way, it is these quick feedback loops that a “worse” approach enables, started much earlier, that eventually lead to a better product.\n\n## The problem with plugins\n\nAt least since the success of Photoshop, a proper plugin interface has been recognized as _The Right Way_ to make software both more compelling for users and less easy to leave behind by creating a third-party ecosystem that provides useful functionality without the vendor having to provide all of that functionality themselves.\n\nIt was so successful that systems like OpenDoc took the idea further to be just a set of plugins, with no real hosting application. None of these systems succeeded in the marketplace.\n\nOne of the reasons is that good plugin interfaces are not just hard, but downright fiendishly difficult to develop. 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