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Poll: Where do you work?

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Since you get upvotes and nobody dares to ask, I step in: What exactly? Front-end? Back-end? Content delivery? Or nothing technical at all?

"Front-end? Back-end? Content delivery?" Pun intended, I assume.

actually no, but with that topic, it's a bit hard to ask anything without peoples fantasies go crazy.

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I wonder how many of us are bootstraping own product while feeding the family by consulting.

I am

Well I for example am doing third round of consulting (several months each) to fund my thing and not become crazy or bankrupt. I'd say - it teaches patience over other things.

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Lol... there are more startup founders than startup employees. A lot of 1 person startups out there?

not necessarily. startup founder with any number of employees may be more likely to read the site than his/her employees.

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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 li…

Oh, absolutely.

Before my current job I had no idea of the sort of money that corporations would throw at enterprise software if it filled an need.

We have an enterprise product in a under-developed market; in the first six months we pushed prices up literally 1000 fold without any drop in interest.

I've observed this even in competitive markets.

Enterprise is a seriously seriously big money spinner; you're looking at more cash in a single sale than some of the exits we see.

EDIT: and the irony is that most of this software is not particularly hard to build. A lot of it is just databases with a front end on it; the only bar to entry is being able to work your way through the policy document/guideline/law that you are providing a tool for and figure out what is needed. After struggling to throw together relatively complex web apps for a couple of years, this sort of development is almost cheating :D

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