1. Make something people want. 2. Don't die until you do #1. 3. There's nothing stopping you except yourself - the people who read this site are already further ahead than they might think. 4. Distribution is key, and is easier to get if you're doing #1. 5. Talking to important people (selling yourself!) is easy and fun if you're doing #1. 6. Don't think - do. Perfection is the enemy of good enough, and good enough is the enemy of at all. (That came from Paul Buchheit). 7. Launch fast, launch often. There's more, I should probably write a blog post about it but I'm wasting time when I should be doing #1. :)