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> Maybe all of the low hanging startup fruit of that variety has been plucked. I felt that I agreed, but then I would have equally agreed right before Slack go
by karamanolev 3y ago
> Maybe all of the low hanging startup fruit of that variety has been plucked.
I felt that I agreed, but then I would have equally agreed right before Slack got so popular, so ... maybe not? We often don't see the long hanging fruit until it gets plucked.
Or rather, it's not as low hanging - just that the difficulty is not technical, it's that building something nice that works well together is just not easy, regardless of the vertical.
- BadHumans 3y agoI'm of the opinion that engineers just don't understand how much ease of use is worth. The infamous Dropbox comment for example. Countless number of successful companies make tools that are not technically amazing but they just work and are designed well.
- calvinmorrison 3y agoyet here we are in 2024 emailing ourselves files
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- kmdupree 3y agoiirc, dropbox was actually very technically challenging, which is why they tested the idea with a mock landing page first before building it (source: Lean Startup) and steve jobs famously spoke with drew about what he'd built early on