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How true this is; deep domain knowledge in a field that is nominally filled with wealthy people who (a) don't program, and (b) spend money to fix problems is li
by donw 17y ago
How true this is; deep domain knowledge in a field that is nominally filled with wealthy people who (a) don't program, and (b) spend money to fix problems is like an express ticket to success.
- jacquesm 17y agoI think it held true in the past, but I'm not so sure about putting that in to practice today. The period we're talking about was the mid '80s, pretty much the time when the PC took off. Conditions that were present in the market then will probably never repeat, even if you had all this knowledge today you'd find those now two decade+ old companies very well entrenched, and most of those problems solved for good. If you could identify such a niche it would be interesting to see how you'd fare with todays tools at your disposal. The dentist guy is a good example, he basically started out writing a ms basic program under dos to do some basic stuff and over time it grew to be the standard package for this region. My guess is that for every niche like that some guy has by now filled it and the company that grew out of it will be very hard to displace.