When I got into SAAS, I thought it went like this:

  • Build a project you have in your head
  • Profit

No one told me about validation, marketing, and sales! And I only figured it out 6 months after coding up my first project, finding 0 users. Why is it so hard to understand the importance of these concepts for programmers? It’s like we insist on only learning them after we fail.

  • geoxsp@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    The thing with that movie and a lot of giant companies today is that they were built at a time where those concepts did not matter a lot. Back then there was (almost) no other service like that to race against. But there were a lot of people just jumping on the web, this can explain the success of some web products.