That pg quote isn't necessarily at odds with the jl quote you pointed out? I believe, pg is talking about scaling up your product so that multiple users that f

That pg quote isn't necessarily at odds with the jl quote you pointed out? I believe, pg is talking about scaling up your product so that multiple users that feel the same pain as you do can use it as well: In other words, fixing users' "jobs to be done" [0]. In fact, one of the other pg essays really drives home jl's point that one comes across things they need but don't exist, regularly: http://paulgraham.com/schlep.html http://paulgraham.com/schlep.html [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21457259 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21457259