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They're talking sales and marketing, not software packaging and delivery (which most software devs can do just fine).

• monoideism 6y ago
  I should add that I got excited for a moment at the thought of some one-stop shop for sales and marketing for software devs building a product. But no, just packaging and delivery. Which is cool, and probably useful for some people. But it doesn't help address the biggest weak spot for solo devs, or small teams: sales and marketing.
  • kls 6y ago
    Back in the days before the internet became a distribution platform, there actually used to be software distributors that acted like this, they would publish in hobbyist magazines as well as send out their own catalogs. Some were better than others and would get the small shops they represented to collaborate to make complementary products work better together. In those days you could be a one person shop and just write the software. I don't know how one would recreate that model in todays realities.
    • monoideism 6y ago
      > I don't know how one would recreate that model in todays realities Seems like a good opportunity for innovation.