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Patio11's Law: The software economy is bigger than you think

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Re: Patio11's Law: The software economy is bigger than you think

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Post by ivalm »

This is somewhat true. However, unlike a regional coffee/fruit cutting business software still has fewer geographic barriers. This means winners will take (relatively) more of the market compared to more traditional businesses (and thus small software business is somewhat less stable).

Re: Patio11's Law: The software economy is bigger than you think

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Post by voidfunc »

This does not just apply to software..., tons of small and medium sized businesses and opportunities out there. For engineers you will most likely never notice them if you're caught up in the Silicon Valley / VC thing.

Of course it requires getting out of your comfort zone... a lot of dev's just want to exchange labor for cash and grind out code because it is comfortable and cozy (right now).

There are tons of small towns and cities with their own economies. And a lot of these places it means a lot if the people purchasing your product or service can get on a phone and talk with someone 20 or 30 minutes away max.

Re: Patio11's Law: The software economy is bigger than you think

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Post by _bxg1 »

I remember reading this article about SAP a few months ago, and it just blew my mind: https://retool.com/blog/erp-for-engineers/

Here was an entire market segment I'd never heard of, and just the market leader is worth $163B. And on top of that, the technology is so totally alien to anything I'd ever heard of before. It's like an alternate-history kind of thing. Like if we discovered a continent somewhere in the Pacific that had never been in contact with our civilization and had steam-powered airships or some crap.

And I'm sure this is just one of many such industries, even just within the umbrella of software.

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Post by Pmop »

voidfunc wrote: post #5

This does not just apply to software..., tons of small and medium sized businesses and opportunities out there. For engineers you will most likely never notice them if you're caught up in the Silicon Valley / VC thing. Of course it requires getting out of your comfort zone... a lot of dev's just want to exchange labor for cash and grind out code because it is comfortable and cozy (right now). There are tons of small…

That might be just the entry point for me, since I'm having a hard time at landing my 1st job as junior. I feel like I'll have a good time and lots of fun anyways. Any advice on how to approach clients? (I can do (full-stack) web development and solve problems/ optimize solutions with algorithms and meta-heuristics.)

Re: Patio11's Law: The software economy is bigger than you think

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Post by CyberDildonics »

Pmop wrote: post #8
voidfunc wrote: post #5

This does not just apply to software..., tons of small and medium sized businesses and opportunities out there. For engineers you will most likely never notice them if you're caught up in the Silicon Valley / VC thing. Of course it requires getting out of your comfort zone... a lot of dev's just want to exchange labor for cash and grind out code because it is comfortable and cozy (right now). There are tons of small…

That might be just the entry point for me, since I'm having a hard time at landing my 1st job as junior. I feel like I'll have a good time and lots of fun anyways. Any advice on how to approach clients? (I can do (full-stack) web development and solve problems/ optimize solutions with algorithms and meta-heuristics.)

If you can't land a job as a junior programmer, you don't want to go around to businesses and end up responsible for promises you can't keep.

Re: Patio11's Law: The software economy is bigger than you think

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Post by gav »

voidfunc wrote: post #5

This does not just apply to software..., tons of small and medium sized businesses and opportunities out there. For engineers you will most likely never notice them if you're caught up in the Silicon Valley / VC thing. Of course it requires getting out of your comfort zone... a lot of dev's just want to exchange labor for cash and grind out code because it is comfortable and cozy (right now). There are tons of small…

It wasn’t until I got a job in consulting and started traveling to what are often dismissed as the “fly-over states” that I got to see billion-dollar B2B businesses that were basically unheard of outside of their market. The B2B e-commerce market alone is over a trillion dollars.

There’s a lot of opportunities for ERP developers and other tech roles that don’t exist in SV.

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