The (always insightful) Joel Spolsky discusses this in his essay "The Developer Abstraction Layer" https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2006/04/11/the-development-ab

The (always insightful) Joel Spolsky discusses this in his essay "The Developer Abstraction Layer" https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2006/04/11/the-development-abstraction-layer-2/ https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2006/04/11/the-development-ab... Bottom line, what is necessary for a business to run requires a lot more infrastructure that you, as a developer, will not enjoy maintaining. Here, I'm not talking about infrastructure just in the sense of what Heroku gives you, but marketing, billing, dealing with customers, keeping track of bug fixes, release engineering work, etc.