In 1996 I worked at a small Internet Service Provider. We were known for being one of the cheapest (if not the cheapest) ISP's in New York City. Back then if

In 1996 I worked at a small Internet Service Provider. We were known for being one of the cheapest (if not the cheapest) ISP's in New York City. Back then if you wanted a machine on the network, you'd get a 10MB uplink to a T-3 (which was better speed than a lot of the other low-tiers). A port fee was $500 a month to be able to transfer 1 gig a month, up to $3000 to transfer 100 gigs a month. Then you'd have to lease a machine as well. Nowadays, I can get a 125MB uplink on Linode, with 2000 gigs allowed a month - for $10 a month. No lease for a machine - the VPS comes with it for free - and is much faster, has more storage, memory etc. than anything I could have gotten for a reasonable price back then. It costs next to nothing to put a product out nowadays. Google Play and the App Store. 100 million people want to download your app from Google Play? No worries - it's hosted on their infrastructure. Aside from that things like Github are around. There are open source libraries that do everything, and with foreign function interface you can use libraries from almost any language. A lot of your coding is done for you. A lot of what I do is hooking two libraries up together, put a UI on it, and then maybe a little bit of my own code. Voila, a product. I have no idea why anyone who can code would feel dependent on investors. Get in a hurry to where you, or you and your co-founder(s), are "ramen profitable", and then devote yourself 100% to building up revenue and getting product/market fit. In high school, I used to have to sneak into the Columbia University engineering library to read the 1978 Bell System Technical Journal articles about how Unix worked. Now I can go down to my local bookstore and there is a shelf of books on it. I don't even have to leave my home, I can get the information on my PC. Not even that - all the information I want to know about Unix is on my phone at any time I want - which runs Unix. It's like people are looking for someone to tell them "no". Every day that passes by, it gets easier and easier to build a product that hundreds of thousands of people want. You don't need a lot of capital, it's practically free. You just need to know a little programming and get to it. Of course, the more programming you learn, the easier it will be.