It's a good starting point to be proficient with a very new/niche technology. For example I got my first full-time job at a similarly desperate company, because

It's a good starting point to be proficient with a very new/niche technology. For example I got my first full-time job at a similarly desperate company, because next to no one knew how to develop Windows Phone applications back then in my country and they were in dire need of such a developer. So actually I didn't have to find them, they found me. :)