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Indeed. I mean, just look at product hunt. Nearly every failure is due to lack of demand because there's already way too many competing products built. And t
by thorwasdfasdf 6y ago
Indeed. I mean, just look at product hunt. Nearly every failure is due to lack of demand because there's already way too many competing products built. And there are a lot of failures. What is the percentage of apps that end up getting a sizeable userbase, less than 1%? There's already such a vast oversupply of software products out there without any additional platforms.
It's far more accurate to say, we need fewer software builders.
- rileymat2 6y agoAn exceedingly high number of restaurants fail in the first year, an industry that has existed for centuries. And we are still opening new ones. This is normal, there will be more and new software products.
- vkou 6y agoSoftware, unlike restaurants, has trivial economies of scale, and colossal start-up costs. It's much cheaper to open a restaurant, then build a word processor that someone can get value out of. It's much harder to build your restaurant chain to serve 100,000 people, then it is to scale your word processor, that can serve 100 people, to serve 100,000 people.
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- thebean11 6y agoIt's pretty easy to build a tool or game that a few hundred people can get value out of though right?
- vkou 6y agoNo, because there's this weird thing about developing apps. If you have too few users, this means that you can't afford to eat, while too many users means that other app developers can't afford to eat.
- thebean11 6y agoThe company where I work has about a hundred engineers, and a team who makes tools for those engineers. There are uncountably many small niches of software customers, whether they're external or not.
- robomc 6y agoThis is completely misunderstanding what the article is talking about though - this isn't about launching saas products, it's about lowering the bar to creating bespoke software internal to businesses.
- srtjstjsj 6y agoWe need far more builders working on compatible open source platforms, apps, and tools, so we stop rebuilding dead end proprietary apps or, even worse, successful walled gardens.
- chenster 6y agoNot software builders, but so-called 'citizen' developers.