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I'm always impressed where people manage this. I bootstrapped an open source project for years before raising venture capital and still never succeeded. In the
by asim 3y ago
I'm always impressed where people manage this. I bootstrapped an open source project for years before raising venture capital and still never succeeded. In the years prior I had tons of side projects that went nowhere. Turns out if you charge people for labour, it's a great starting point, but if you can then use that as an insight for a product, even better. A great example of that is basecamp but also Shopify. These things spun out of web agencies. Build things based on a need and it'll translate into something bigger, even profitable.
- dabeeeenster 3y agoThanks for the kind words. A LOT of the Flagsmith design and approach was built around solving problems that our consulting clients had (basically big UK blue chips doing cloud transformation). Starting with an agency can be a bit like enabling cheat mode in many ways.
- asim 3y agoYes if you can build that insight whether from inside an existing company or external client it makes a lot of sense. Sometimes hard for Dev centric founders to turn that into a real business but the opportunity is there to learn and then execute on it as you've demonstrated.