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Ask HN: How will today's election affect the products you will build next year?
I’m very curious whether the outcome will significantly change your plans to build product — and how the differences in policy will change the startup ecosystem.
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- leytonstone 2y agoIn the sense the external environment can influence business decisions, or even change the nature of a business... maybe. At a strategic level. Depends on what you do. To determine how much what you do might depend on external factors, there's no harm in doing a PEST analysis [1] once in a while. Perhaps combine it with some other tools, mind tools really that can help spark or focus reflective thinking. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PEST_analysis https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PEST_analysis
- gregjor 2y agoWhat differences in policy? I haven't heard from either side that sounds like coherent policy, unless "we must win" describes a policy. In any case the outcome will almost certainly have no affect on any of my plans.
- spcebar 2y agoProject wise probably little, though I'm sure hiring will be affected by economic conditions set by economic policy. More materially, I'm a less productive coder when I'm filled with anxiety and dread from headlines everyday.
- JohnFen 2y agoShort of some unexpected major disaster resulting from it (such as civil unrest), I don't see how the results of the election would affect my business or product plans.