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> Individual engineers prove over and over again that they can start multi-million dollar businesses Beware of survivor bias, for every successful business, th

• ben_w 4y ago
  > there might be a 1000 failed ones. For example, me. (Hmm, perhaps I should try to use GPT to turn my old desktop Java shareware into browser-based Javascript freeware).
  • linkdd 4y ago
    It's kinda the same for me, our product solved a problem that was not enough annoying to people for them to consider buying it, so we never had the product market fit, and never managed to sell a single license. The company still exists today, but it's mainly surviving with us doing freelance work and hoping one of our side project might generate some revenue. Maybe as open-source, the product could have some success, but I don't know how to "sell" open-source or make a revenue from it.