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I have also realized one thing: there is always room for one more. Unless the market your are aiming at is incredibly small, chances are it will never be covere
by nico 17y ago
I have also realized one thing: there is always room for one more. Unless the market your are aiming at is incredibly small, chances are it will never be covered 100%, hence you'll always have at least some room to get in.
It's really incredible that us techies are always looking for something completely different to do, when instead we could just do something that is already proven and make money out of it, and even more money if we do it really well. Think car dealerships for example, it doesn't matter that someone already invented them and that there are thousands of them, people still want to buy cars and try new stuff, same with restaurants, supermarkets, electronics..... you get the idea.
- Psyonic 17y agoYes, but part of the draw of software in general is that one vendor can theoretically serve the entire market, whereas a car dealership can only serve a given area.
- tjr 17y agoA better example might be book publishers; do we really need any C books beyond K&R, or at most, K&R plus van der Linden? Maybe not, but there's dozens of them anyway. Different books on the same topic might be selected based on anything from number of pages to familiarity with the publisher and/or author to typesetting to cover graphics to thoroughness of the index to reviews on Amazon.com to addressing niche needs (or perceived needs) of a particular target audience to ... Even today, with lots of programmers wishing C would just die forever, I suspect a publisher could put out a new book on C and make it profitable if they found the right criteria.