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Bleeding-edge tech will kill your startup
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Re: Bleeding-edge tech will kill your startup
#52Has any of commenters read the article? Looks like everyone talks about using bleeding edge tech in startup and how its bad, but this article is about building a bleeding edge product and how difficult is to sell such product (probably because everyone know that using bleeding edge products is dangerous :) )
Thanks for this comment! I usually read the comments before the article and though it would be a Captain Obvious advicicle with snarky comments as are the comments here. So I wasn’t even considering reading it.
Glad someone took the time to read the damn article lol
Interesting reading by the way.
Re: Bleeding-edge tech will kill your startup
#53Could also be summarized as "pivoting hard is almost certain death" – bleeding-edge tech just changed the number of problems from large N to N+1. You have to basically shift the mindset of an entire company, and everybody was hired with pre-pivot skills in mind.
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#54Easier said than done I know (although I work in a technical capacity in a company that did exactly that - entered a market with tooling/tools that didn't exist, and had to prove the product actually had any value) - but I didn't see the part where they got trial customers, delivered on their value prop, and made them into case studies on how much value they were delivering.
If they were able to for example have a handful of customers who averaged (entirely theoretically) a 7% increase in profits at a cost of 1.5% of their operating profits, it would have been entirely possible for them to be on an upward trajectory.
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#55Earlier quoted context omitted.
>Though even in the latter scenario, it's still prudent to narrow the scope of your bleeding-edge tech as much as possible (e.g. if you're doing a cryptocurrency app, you probably shouldn't be trying to make your own NoSQL database at the same time). Nonsense, the database is the back up plan so you can pivot to a DB company if your main thing doesn't work out.
Or pivot to "we're a blockchain-based database". And when that fails, "we're a blockchain stored in a database". After that, you'll have to get creative with the neologisms: "we're the first ever datachain backed by a Baseblock".
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Re: Bleeding-edge tech will kill your startup
#56Earlier quoted context omitted.
Low end cortex-m cores are pretty cheap these days. More modern designs and processes use silicon more efficiently, so you get more capability for the same raw material cost. Also, you can do a surprising amount with an 8-bit MCU. Lots of very capable 3D printers still run on AVR based controllers. Often times, you're limited by peripherals or memory size more than raw CPU speed. As a baseline, it's relatively easy t…
Really... I wonder what the spare cycles are doing, whether it's truly waste and bad coding or if it's doing some kind of sophisticated predictive algorithms that we're unaware of. I do try to assume engineers did something smart, maybe there's a good reason... I really hope the reason isn't "so we could run the mainline linux kernel" or "because we needed a RTOS" or something similarly bloated.
There is tons of human value in doing things good enough rather than perfect.
Why implement quicksort when bubble sort will give you the result you need just as "instantly" and be easier to verify?
Why bother procedurally iterating line by line through a 1GB of text in python, when you can call f.read().split("\n") inside a list comprehension and probably have it run just as fast because you have a 64-bit 4Ghz superscalered mmxzomg Inteliapple CPU and 32GB of RAM.
Often times, the bloat is an intentional tradeoff to make something else better. More accurate code, more readable code, more configurable code, etc. Other times, it really is just bloated, more terrible code; even that has some value, if it meant that someone was able to contribute a useful feature that they wouldn't have otherwise been able to due to lack of skill or domain specific knowledge.
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#57Had a $4 mouse from the dollar store. Watched some youtube videos, and decided to splurge and bought the latest and greatest bleeding-edge Mx master 3, at $129 and 3225% more expensive. Despite all the great reviews and hype. I'm kind of hating it. Damn thing is so heavy. It feels like I'm moving a brick around. Was going to return it, but now I'm saving it for a protest.
Cans of tuna are cheaper and tastier.
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#58Sometimes I need to echo things back to understand.
1. Start-up decides to scrap their current, unhappy business to pivot into a totally different area for which they have no long passion.
2. Start-up develops a product for a small, small niche: companies making design systems that also drive product development decisions based on actual, as opposed to requested, client usage. And said development company cannot use log analytics, roll their own, nor existing companies like Teleric.
3. They create a solution to said possible problem, without a planned first customer nor existing application.
4. They are surprised when sales is difficult.
I still don't understand.
Re: Bleeding-edge tech will kill your startup
#59Looking at their homepage it's very hard to understand what they actually provide.
On mobile it's impossible to understand what they do. Two words and then a screenshot that's impossible to read. Maybe that's why they've failed as a company. If you can't even make a reasonable homepage, what hope do you have in B2B sales.
Re: Bleeding-edge tech will kill your startup
#60Had a $4 mouse from the dollar store. Watched some youtube videos, and decided to splurge and bought the latest and greatest bleeding-edge Mx master 3, at $129 and 3225% more expensive. Despite all the great reviews and hype. I'm kind of hating it. Damn thing is so heavy. It feels like I'm moving a brick around. Was going to return it, but now I'm saving it for a protest.
Cans of tuna are cheaper and tastier.
As a Vegan, I'm repulsed at throwing dead fish at people. Also they kill dolphins when they catch them. Dolphins are "people kind" best friend in the ocean.