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But that's just the price they pay for working in an overcrowded market segment. The upside they have is that their work is (compared to a lot of other programm
by Joe-Z 9y ago
But that's just the price they pay for working in an overcrowded market segment. The upside they have is that their work is (compared to a lot of other programming jobs) fun and hip.
If you want to make money with what you're doing you need to be either really good/marketing-savvy/popular or pick something that most people consider 'boring'.
- zerkten 9y agoThe 'boring' things (i.e. the enterprise market) is also 'harder' most of the time because they require a broader range of skills and greater perseverance. You can validate and get growth in a freemium model, but then the hard work to get real sales process begins.
- iamatworknow 9y ago>The 'boring' things (i.e. the enterprise market) is also 'harder' most of the time because they require a broader range of skills and greater perseverance. Please tell that to my boss/company owner. He sees news articles about how such-and-such social startup created an app in X days and wonders why we can't do the same just as quickly. Sure, if you want me to write a Twitter clone I can do that in an afternoon. If you want me to write an app for a very specific enterprise sector filled with regulations, while making sure it integrates with our existing desktop software (that was originally written without internet connectivity in mind at all), that'll take an order of magnitude more days.