Do you have someone that constantly challenges your ideas? Or do you simply come up with an idea and quickly race to launch it?

If you don’t have a critic in your life than I suggest you find one. One of my best friends who was my college roommate and coworker for a couple jobs is my biggest critic. We both carpool to work every morning and on the ride over I tell him about the ideas I’m working on for a new website or some concept and his response is almost always the same. He immediately begins to stab holes in my ideas while using a sarcastic you must be stupid tone:

Why would I like that website when you fail to have “this feature“?
Why do you continue to waste your time on that website?
You should work on that other idea you told me two weeks ago that you still haven’t started.

If you’re reading these questions and find them rude and/or downright mean that’s because they are. But he has a point and it causes me to think more. Why would someone like my website if I don’t have “this feature” or Why am I wasting my time developing a site that has a limited potential.

I actually have a hefty bet with him right now that this new site I’m launching will convert at least one sale in the first month. I know that it won’t be difficult and it makes me work harder just so that I can prove him wrong. But the primary point I’m trying to make here is that if no one asks these questions or criticizes your work and ideas than you can end up launching a website, product or service that doesn’t work well and in the mean time lose a lot of time and money.

So I ask again, Who is your Critic?