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No one gave us a popular blog, we built it over 10 years. No one gives you anything, you have to spend the time to make it happen. This is another thing we talk
by jasonfried 18y ago
No one gave us a popular blog, we built it over 10 years. No one gives you anything, you have to spend the time to make it happen. This is another thing we talk about every time we have the chance: All of this takes time. You have to be in it for the long haul.
- dabeeeenster 18y agoThat is understandable, but you are still not answering the point. A large part of the success of companies like 37s and fogbugz is due to their online following, which is based on a blog and in your case the Rails framework. Companies that write a blog with 5 subscribers are simply not playing in the same league. Yes, of course, you have to start with 5, and I'm sure you did at some point, but to suggest that you can apply X ideas to achieve Y without discussing these enormous 'external' conditions that are directly attributable to this achievement is not telling the whole story.
- davidw 18y ago> we built it over 10 years. Which is longer than you've worked on any of your software, if I'm not mistaken. That would, in some ways, make it the biggest barrier to entry. The software is good, but certainly not impossible for good people to replicate in a relatively brief time, so what really seems to differentiate you is the blog/rails/following - that is something that cannot easily be replicated.