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I still disagree. Just because something isn't business viable doesn't mean you shouldn't do it. You should pretty much always do it - then decide if there's a
by bennyg 14y ago
I still disagree. Just because something isn't business viable doesn't mean you shouldn't do it. You should pretty much always do it - then decide if there's a market/think about how to market for it.
A business for the sake of just making a business feels wrong. A business for the sake of making an awesome product feels right.
- janardanyri 14y agoYou seem to be implicitly thinking of 'marketing' as pejorative. I'd suggest instead that identifying an audience for a potential product is actually part of making an awesome product. There's a pretty wide stretch of territory between not caring whether something is business viable and only caring about building a successful business.
- white_devil 14y agoHe meant that if your goal is to make money with a business, then you should start with businessy stuff like figuring out if there's a market for what you want to build. You're free to start a business by building the product of your dreams, but no matter how much you personally like it, there's no guarantee people will pay for it. In other words, if you want money, but start with building a product, you're likely to have a bad time. But if you just want to build an awesome product, and don't care about whether you make any money with it, then there's no problem.