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Patrick you've put yourself in a relatively unusual position of being both a full-stack software developer / marketer and actually knowing the market. It's str
by petenixey 13y ago
Patrick you've put yourself in a relatively unusual position of being both a full-stack software developer / marketer and actually knowing the market.
It's struck me that part of the reason people don't try to solve these types of problems because they just don't know the market at all. They solve problems they have exposure to.
Knowing what you know, do you think there's any scope for a "Meet the Market" mini-conference where people with actual problems (and budget) from, say, medecine come along and give a lecture on what problems they'd pay to have solved? Do you think that purchasers have enough knowledge about their own problems that they could verbalise them such that people could help solve them?
- omegant 13y agoI think Patric has the point about going and solving real problems AND making money in the process. A miniconference is the lazy route because you are going to see needs filtered through someone else's point of view. If you are going to develope a product it has to be from your point of view and the needs you feel are uncovered. I've been working in a market that is not going to change the word, but it's very far from my expertice field. I'll say that sometimes "experts" are so entrenched on the existing conditions(or they have too much to risk) that you need a child yelling that the king is naked, to bring light into the room. To find problems to solve, you only need to walk with your eyes open, and listen when people talk. There are so many broken processes out there that it's overwelming.