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You pay the carpenter for his time and materials. The same thing could be true of software development. But instead you buy a table from Apple and it's only c

by mrkeen 10mo ago

You pay the carpenter for his time and materials. The same thing could be true of software development. But instead you buy a table from Apple and it's only compatible with chairs from Apple. So you can't pay your local carpenter for repairs or better chairs. Anyway, the big companies have long since realised it's more lucrative to stop selling the furniture and rent it out instead. What do you build?

asim 10mo ago
I wrote https://go-micro.dev https://go-micro.dev - A go framework for microservices. I've written a few other things in my time (https://github.com/asim https://github.com/asim) and tried my hand at hosted paid APIs which was moderately successful but failed as a VC funded business. I think I've just existed so much in an era of free consumer services like Google and open source software that it's skewed my perspective a lot. Like why charge for this, it could be free..m
- mrkeen 10mo ago
  So you walked out of the free carpentry store holding Linux, a Go compiler, Git, etc. and now you're looking to build stuff to sell to other carpenters! Non-carpenters don't need microservice frameworks or app platforms. Plus carpenters know they can usually get the stuff for free anyway - they were just in the same store as you! Have a think about the relative sizes of the carpenter market vs. the non-carpenter market. 0.5% of humans are devs, but 70% of humans have internet. 70-90% of internet users have made an online purchase. (I assume these AI slop answers are at least in the ballpark) (Anyway I really don't have a head for business, so don't take my advice. I just like programming on and off the clock and I get a salary for it)
  - asim 10mo ago
    No thank you for that example at least because I feel like I got hit in the face with a big fish. Of course trying to sell to other carpenters is mistake! Unless it's really refined tools they need, not the stuff you built with them. I guess the framework was a tool Devs need but I could never sell it... Now carpenters selling to regular people. Ok finally my brain clicks. Take the easy route. Sell to people who don't code and help them win. Then it's about specialisation I guess. You could build anything, maybe there's a focus area. I did build https://mu.xyz https://mu.xyz but yet to figure out that user demographic. Thanks for the thought experiment

by mrkeen 10mo ago

asim 10mo ago

I wrote https://go-micro.dev https://go-micro.dev - A go framework for microservices. I've written a few other things in my time (https://github.com/asim https://github.com/asim) and tried my hand at hosted paid APIs which was moderately successful but failed as a VC funded business. I think I've just existed so much in an era of free consumer services like Google and open source software that it's skewed my perspective a lot. Like why charge for this, it could be free..m

mrkeen 10mo ago
So you walked out of the free carpentry store holding Linux, a Go compiler, Git, etc. and now you're looking to build stuff to sell to other carpenters! Non-carpenters don't need microservice frameworks or app platforms. Plus carpenters know they can usually get the stuff for free anyway - they were just in the same store as you! Have a think about the relative sizes of the carpenter market vs. the non-carpenter market. 0.5% of humans are devs, but 70% of humans have internet. 70-90% of internet users have made an online purchase. (I assume these AI slop answers are at least in the ballpark) (Anyway I really don't have a head for business, so don't take my advice. I just like programming on and off the clock and I get a salary for it)
- asim 10mo ago
  No thank you for that example at least because I feel like I got hit in the face with a big fish. Of course trying to sell to other carpenters is mistake! Unless it's really refined tools they need, not the stuff you built with them. I guess the framework was a tool Devs need but I could never sell it... Now carpenters selling to regular people. Ok finally my brain clicks. Take the easy route. Sell to people who don't code and help them win. Then it's about specialisation I guess. You could build anything, maybe there's a focus area. I did build https://mu.xyz https://mu.xyz but yet to figure out that user demographic. Thanks for the thought experiment