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Instructing founders to build products based on themselves as the initial market sounds like good advice, but it worries me slightly that if this advice were ta
by md224 13y ago
Instructing founders to build products based on themselves as the initial market sounds like good advice, but it worries me slightly that if this advice were taken universally in tech circles, we would innovate in a fairly egocentric direction. Then again, I agree that people work better on problems that they're intimately familiar with, so I don't know if there's a good way around this.
- eitally 13y agoI think that's already true, and seems to be the single biggest (albeit poorly articulated and somewhat nebulous) complaint people have about the valley. Ideas are created in the bizarro vacuum of that specific locale and fail to meet the needs or wants of the populace as a whole. But -- given the easy flow of capital the last several years -- it's easy to argue that everything is going swimmingly and there is no problem. It's takes quite an ego to align oneself with either extreme, imho.
- pg 13y agoIt's only the initial product that should be for oneself. E.g. Microsoft started out making Basic interpreters for hackers, but eventually they made software for everyone.