4 ms·
And the advertisers laugh all the way to the bank. I think this is the phrase that captures most sibling comments. And that is the truth to paraphrase the wel
by eftychis 5y ago
And the advertisers laugh all the way to the bank.
I think this is the phrase that captures most sibling comments.
And that is the truth to paraphrase the well known phrase. The software industry at least in the big central areas like the Bay Area is extremely prone to trendy tools. Case in point infrastructure, ML, web dev, crypto currency space: always jumping on the new tool that will be world changing with the underlying motives of the tools of course being making money one way or another by dominating and establishing a good enough solution that will drive people to them.
I would accept this statement to hold on more conservative spaces like aerospace but the customers and b2b relations are different there. Not my space but I would be surprised if there was a tool to sell and no marketing there.
- Jensson 5y ago> And the advertisers laugh all the way to the bank. They don't, marketing to nerds isn't very profitable which is why it is so cheap to buy ads for them relative their purchasing power.
- inter_netuser 5y agoWhy isn’t it profitable? Everyone has an Adblock?
- Existenceblinks 5y agoDevelopers barely buy things. Excluding infrastructure, You can count with one hand fingers. Be it IDE, Password Manager, Note Talking, .. well I can't come up with things that they aren't already using FREE tools.
- cj 5y agoExcluding infrastructure is a pretty big exclusion, especially if your infrastructure includes tools like New Relic, Data Dog, Sentry, CircleCI, and the countless other developer B2B SaaS tools in place at thousands of companies. Most of those purchases were driven by developers even if not using their personal credit card to buy them.
- Existenceblinks 5y agoYeah, problem spaces of those tools left for indie SaaS to solve is pretty small.
- inter_netuser 5y agowhere do you think are profitable areas for indie SaaS?
- Existenceblinks 5y agoThat's literally my question too, sorry!
- deleted 5y ago[deleted]
- myWindoonn 5y agoWe can build our own tools. Why buy any software, ever? Certainly, why buy software which is being advertised or marketed? There are business reasons, but not ethical or technical reasons.
- edanm 5y agoMost people can also cook their own food, does that mean they never at a restaurant?