Paul Graham writes about startups
Lots of founders mentioned how important it was to launch with the simplest possible thing. By this point everyone knows you should release fast and iterate. It’s practically a mantra at YC. But even so a lot of people seem to have been burned by not doing it:
Build the absolute smallest thing that can be considered a complete application and ship it.
Why do people take too long on the first version? Pride, mostly. They hate to release something that could be better. They worry what people will say about them. But you have to overcome this:
Doing something "simple" at first glance does not mean you aren’t doing something meaningful, defensible, or valuable.
Don’t worry what people will say. If your first version is so impressive that trolls don’t make fun of it, you waited too long to launch.
While the article is about his experiences with yc, it could be about anything, especially church planting.
