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>> but I'm not sure the "dedicated developer for a small e-commerce site" job exists much anymore. They have been replaced by Shopify, WIX and even Amazon. Mat
by gtvwill 10y ago
>> but I'm not sure the "dedicated developer for a small e-commerce site" job exists much anymore. They have been replaced by Shopify, WIX and even Amazon.
Mate I thought this was the case until over the last 2 years I have met a number of mum and dad "coding" companies that literally make their bread and butter from building websites using these platforms and shit like wordpress. I was actually blown away that a few of them had managed to make enough to maintain/pay off houses in Sydney (and in nice parts of the city too) and still have enough to buy a bimmer and a audi to boot. Like considering over the last few years I have been trying to get myself out of the laboring market and into I.T, I had to actually stop my jaw dropping in obvious exclamation when I found out these people support their lavish lifestyles providing products that are literally DRAG AND DROP forms of production and not exclaim "you get paid for doing that shit?!" its been a real eye opener...there are plenty of luddite's out there willing to pay for crap.
- eddy_chan 10y agoYeah but you need to understand it's not the actual coding they sell, it's the 'online business consulting' which brings in the moolah
- u_wot_m8 10y agoDevelopers need to get out of their bubble and realize that even a basic website is sorcery for 99% of the population. I'm thankful that I started off in online marketing and then learned to code because I remember what it was like to know nothing and can see opportunities that people like yourself overlook. This post reminds me of the infamous HN dropbox comment in terms of how out of touch it is.
- Thrillington 10y agoThis is it exactly, the blue collar programming jobs are using the tools mentioned by the GP to build sites.
- busterarm 10y agoThe downside of the 'sorcery' impression is that they actually think it's magic and once you make magic happen, you can do anything. There are no engineering trade offs to make. Your request isn't unreasonable or infeasible. If you don't cast spells for me, I'll look around for someone who will (try). Cheaper.
- Arizhel 10y agoThis just shows that it's not technical ability that translates to money, it's salesmanship. These people aren't gifted programmers, obviously; what they are good at is doing something that's "good enough" (and beyond the abilities of regular people still, mainly because the regular people haven't even bothered trying to DIY), and then selling it to them. There's countless examples of technical salespeople selling utter crap to clients for huge amounts of money; just look at "enterprise software". Much of it is utter junk, yet costs a fortune because some salesperson can convince some corporate exec that it's great.