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I argue that building a software is just a small part of the story. Not the most important one. The most important one is a customer acquisition. There is an
by aristofun 1y ago
I argue that building a software is just a small part of the story. Not the most important one.
The most important one is a customer acquisition.
There is an ocean of cool but dead software products and a sea of mediocre successfull ones with the right business model and sales/marketing strategy/budgets.
If you stay solo while in the large and profitable market - you're either stay very small, get flushed away by a competitor with big money or become the competitor with big money.
- Slava27 1y agoSure, no questions that sales and stuff are crucial. And solo-founder is not just dev - he must be everything. But the idea is - now there's way more chances to succeed.
- aristofun 1y agoThat’s my pont. Chances are better for sure, but not “way more”. Because no LLM will replace a great marketing idea or budgets.
- rallyvite 1y ago1000% agree, distribution strategy and ideally a unique way to drive adoption built into the product or service creates the most value and thus optionality for founders. I've personally tried many bootstrapped companies with little success but a couple that did get escape velocity (one hit 9 figure revenues by year 8), the common denominator was a well-thought out, embedded customer acquisition tightly integrated into the core product. Very hard to couple given how excited we tend to get building a solution to a problem we see. But super critical, really good insight here.