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Reading between the lines somewhat, there's an eye-opening point embedded here that is often missed by the ultra-connected in my experience. That is, the majori
by petercooper 12y ago
Reading between the lines somewhat, there's an eye-opening point embedded here that is often missed by the ultra-connected in my experience. That is, the majority of people in our industry (let's say that's software development, for the sake of argument) are not on Twitter every day, are not famous, do not have significant social media presence in respect to their jobs, are not on Hacker News, and so on.. and they're a huge, important, and profitable market that is often overlooked by those who assume everyone is reading HN or hanging out on Twitter all the time.
- ericsink 12y agoExactly. And very well said.
- mbesto 12y agoPeople in this "digitally connected" world often overlook any product that doesn't produce high DAU/MAUs. It's the single metric driving a huge sector of tech today. Often, digital influence (likes, klout scores, etc) are the symptoms of large amount of gold miners chasing gold bars in the shape of MAUs/DAUs. I don't want to discredit those who do so (it's clearly profitable to some extent), but there is a huge market that doesn't include the $17bil Uber's of the world...industries that have been around for centuries, that rarely get press (because they also don't drive today's eyeballs). That being said, those same markets have never heard of Haskell, Rails, Erlang, Backbone and the latter, which could in fact drive real solutions for their problems. This is really (IMHO) where real economic value can be had, and the potential is in the trillions of dollars. I like patio's sentiment (not verbatim) of "99% of the businesses out there still don't have web solutions".