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Poll: Where do you work?
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#52Deutsche Bank
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#53Sigh, these poll options seem to confirm to me just how myopic many HN and startup people are about the software world. Believe it or not, there is a LOT of software that gets written that either is not "web", or related to a startup. Additionally, the people that write it do find the content at HN relevant and interesting. I found myself at a party in SF on New Years at an apartment that housed a startup as well as…
Would you wager there is more software written that is not web related and that it collectively makes more money than the stuff that is?
How would you even begin to collect the data necessary to make an informed decision on this?
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#54No one here works at Apple? No wonder iTunes is so bad on Windows.
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#55TinyPrints
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#56Re: Poll: Where do you work?
#57Sigh, these poll options seem to confirm to me just how myopic many HN and startup people are about the software world. Believe it or not, there is a LOT of software that gets written that either is not "web", or related to a startup. Additionally, the people that write it do find the content at HN relevant and interesting. I found myself at a party in SF on New Years at an apartment that housed a startup as well as…
Would you wager there is more software written that is not web related and that it collectively makes more money than the stuff that is?
Yes, I would. Although it depends on your definition of "making money". Financial software, for instance, makes a lot of money. So does any software that contributes to the oil giants. Or any number of other industries.
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#58Sigh, these poll options seem to confirm to me just how myopic many HN and startup people are about the software world. Believe it or not, there is a LOT of software that gets written that either is not "web", or related to a startup. Additionally, the people that write it do find the content at HN relevant and interesting. I found myself at a party in SF on New Years at an apartment that housed a startup as well as…
Would you wager there is more software written that is not web related and that it collectively makes more money than the stuff that is?
I am almost certain that non-web software brings in much more revenue than web software. There is a lot of niche WinForms stuff out there from no-name vendors that rule a given industry and companies pay a lot of money for that, and that's not even counting revenue from office suites, operating systems, financial management, and other desktop software that sits in every business.
There are a few glaring exceptions like Google, but for the most part conventional desktop software sells much better than web software. Many web startups have no real monetization plan and are going nowhere fast, some inspired by attitude embodied in The Social Network's telling of "I don't even know what it is yet, how can we monetize!" I've actually had a friend tell me that his startup is not going to do anything to make money at first, because "like Facebook", they "just want to see where things go", or something like that. I think this attitude is pretty dangerous and misguided.
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#59Earlier quoted context omitted.
Would you wager there is more software written that is not web related and that it collectively makes more money than the stuff that is?
How would you even begin to collect the data necessary to make an informed decision on this?
I'm aware of one side of the equation, many millions of dynamic websites.
My wager would be that websites and web related stuff (also intranet) now makes up the bulk of the software written but that the money is still made on the other side.
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#60Lol... there are more startup founders than startup employees. A lot of 1 person startups out there?