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I can relate to a lot of things he said, but one thing i used to pass through that was to dedicate myself to a bigger goal. I've started a side project that took me some years (at least 4), a lot of perseverance, because there are a bunch of things that are actually quite boring to implement. (You actually need to create some thick skin to overcome those boring tasks that sometimes can take weeks) Lost basically all…
I tend to huddle in this distributed systems / commodity ML / tight C++ cluster: stuff good for scaling consumer websites but not really dead center for much else.
I need to do some hardware (or at least some embedded systems), some phone app stuff, some web stuff, and a zillion other things.
The author seems to be fairly tightly clustered around PHP/web/REST stuff. All that stuff is useful and important but focusing too much on any area can get stale.
At least for me.
If you like something and make a blog about it, well, if there are others interested, they will read it. If not, they won't. Seems like nice contributions to me.
A 'Commodore 64' has basically zero commercial value, but a super cool fun hobby thing to do. Seems like you're very successful in making cool stuff to me.
From a 'business perspective', your projects tend not to be commercial or business oriented, I wouldn't expect them to go in that direction. Maybe, but probably not.
If you solve a problem for a business that's willing to pay you money, well that's a business. You'll need to get out in the world to find out what those problems are.
Otherwise, enjoy the journey of your frankly very cool looking projects.
You might want to find a project partner on the business side with some interesting ideas but you may not like it. Selling 'shoes' or 'delivering food' or 'optimising ad spend' is not always the funnest stuff to work on.
This is great. I love it when there’s honest post from a builder. The explanation for failure is clear to me. None of these products as they are constructed are customer-lead. They don’t start with product market fit. As crazy as it hounds the number one reason startups fail is a lack of customers. You love building the technical solution. You want to have market success. But your passion is probably not talking to t…
This is great. I love it when there’s honest post from a builder. The explanation for failure is clear to me. None of these products as they are constructed are customer-lead. They don’t start with product market fit. As crazy as it hounds the number one reason startups fail is a lack of customers. You love building the technical solution. You want to have market success. But your passion is probably not talking to t…
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This is great. I love it when there’s honest post from a builder. The explanation for failure is clear to me. None of these products as they are constructed are customer-lead. They don’t start with product market fit. As crazy as it hounds the number one reason startups fail is a lack of customers. You love building the technical solution. You want to have market success. But your passion is probably not talking to t…
By ops, do you mean sales vs devops? If so I would agree.
This is great. I love it when there’s honest post from a builder. The explanation for failure is clear to me. None of these products as they are constructed are customer-lead. They don’t start with product market fit. As crazy as it hounds the number one reason startups fail is a lack of customers. You love building the technical solution. You want to have market success. But your passion is probably not talking to t…
This is great. I love it when there’s honest post from a builder. The explanation for failure is clear to me. None of these products as they are constructed are customer-lead. They don’t start with product market fit. As crazy as it hounds the number one reason startups fail is a lack of customers. You love building the technical solution. You want to have market success. But your passion is probably not talking to t…
A friend of mine who is an entrepreneur likes to say the trick to starting a successful project is to “find someone who is bleeding and has their wallet out.”