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points by flir 3 days ago | 0 comments
It was never the coding that was hard, it was always the marketing.
[–] prmph 3 days ago
The coding is hard, unless by coding you mean slapping together CRUD forms. Many businesses are undone or fail to grow properly by neglecting this. This refrain that everything about starting a software business is hard except the coding needs to die.

If the coding was nothing, every good marketing guy could go solo and start large software businesses. It does not happen. You mostly see successful technical founders, or usually a marriage of technical and business cofounders.

Finding a fit between viable business opportunities and the tech to address it is what's hard, and requires several skills: technical, marketing, communication, product design, etc.

[–] jaynetics 3 days ago
At least for us dev types.
[–] flir 2 days ago
Thanks. I thought that was implicit, but I guess not.
[–] random_cat_8745 3 days ago
and infrastructure, it can be costly
[–] pmarsh 2 days ago
And customer support. Unless you aren't going to sell to humans they're going to break/not RTFM/have asks.