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I agree, but I can never get over the fact that selling picks and axes to gold-rush miners is selling services and products to people who are chasing unrealisti

I agree, but I can never get over the fact that selling picks and axes to gold-rush miners is selling services and products to people who are chasing unrealistic dreams and are statistically pre-dispositioned to fail. And is just a way to take advantage of the situation to your own gain. Fully knowing that, at the end of the day, I can't feel proud of that ... unless I also increase the success rate of those miners. So the moral of this is - don't just sell those picks and axes, but improve and progress the process of finding gold.

mkr-hn 14y ago
All business people chase unrealistic dreams since most will fail. Providing the best services and products you can only improves their odds. The mining supply company that gets a great bulk deal on high quality pickaxes and sells them for a modest profit is doing a good thing.
jiggy2011 14y ago
Not necessarily, unless you are misrepresenting something to your own advantage I don't think you would have acted immorally. You can sell your services to somebody who has better odds of success than you would alone because of finance or other skills experience they have etc. As I have mentioned elsewhere in the thread, there are a lot of perfectly valid reasons to hire a mobile developer other than "I want to be an appstore millionaire". Thinking about it only in this way might suggest an over-exposure to HN-think.
JVIDEL 14y ago
I wonder how long is this going to last. Lately I been hearing more about startups that provide tools and services to make apps than about startups that make actual apps. I think that might be a sign that this gold rush it's on its last legs. Too many devs got tired of trying, so the question now is how long until the vast infrastructure of app-dev startups starts to crumble due to the old offer>demand imbalance. Pickaxes sure got a lot cheaper when nobody was looking for gold anymore...

mkr-hn 14y ago

All business people chase unrealistic dreams since most will fail. Providing the best services and products you can only improves their odds. The mining supply company that gets a great bulk deal on high quality pickaxes and sells them for a modest profit is doing a good thing.

jiggy2011 14y ago

Not necessarily, unless you are misrepresenting something to your own advantage I don't think you would have acted immorally. You can sell your services to somebody who has better odds of success than you would alone because of finance or other skills experience they have etc. As I have mentioned elsewhere in the thread, there are a lot of perfectly valid reasons to hire a mobile developer other than "I want to be an appstore millionaire". Thinking about it only in this way might suggest an over-exposure to HN-think.

JVIDEL 14y ago

I wonder how long is this going to last. Lately I been hearing more about startups that provide tools and services to make apps than about startups that make actual apps. I think that might be a sign that this gold rush it's on its last legs. Too many devs got tired of trying, so the question now is how long until the vast infrastructure of app-dev startups starts to crumble due to the old offer>demand imbalance. Pickaxes sure got a lot cheaper when nobody was looking for gold anymore...