License it under GPL and distribute it to as many people as possible. If you're lucky, it might turn into a 10 billion dollar tool.
The thing is, I'm more worried about loosing.
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I'm afraid to show the world a tool which built to solve a billion dollar issue
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Re: I'm afraid to show the world a tool which built to solve a billion dollar issue
#12License it under GPL and distribute it to as many people as possible. If you're lucky, it might turn into a 10 billion dollar tool.
The thing is, I'm more worried about loosing.
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#13If it's a real advance expect manure and misunderstanding for a while - we have the record of what bystanders said as they watched Fulton's steamship being built and it wasn't pretty. Everyone knew it couldn't work, was madness, etc. Twas a good day in my life, long ago, when I realized that anxiety couldn't actually kill me. Bite the bullet. But steel man your product as best you can and anticipate whatever technica…
But what if there's a ton of criticism?
Re: I'm afraid to show the world a tool which built to solve a billion dollar issue
#14Earlier quoted context omitted.
The thing is, I'm more worried about loosing.
Worse than https://theweek.com/articles/442447/6-tiny-scientific-mistak... ?
Or God forbid a Tannenbaum situation, where you actually did create a world-changing tool and licensed it to the wrong people in a moment of confused passion...
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#17Without any more context, I'm not sure how you expect to get serious answers to your question. "Billion dollar issue" is hopelessly vague.
Actually, not vague. So, there's a tool which 60% of companies use, and it has one major issue which has a fix but is very hard and is unlikely that they'll fix. I just built a data layer to solve this.
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#18If it's a real advance expect manure and misunderstanding for a while - we have the record of what bystanders said as they watched Fulton's steamship being built and it wasn't pretty. Everyone knew it couldn't work, was madness, etc. Twas a good day in my life, long ago, when I realized that anxiety couldn't actually kill me. Bite the bullet. But steel man your product as best you can and anticipate whatever technica…
But what if there's a ton of criticism?
Will you laugh last... that's the question. I know it's easy to give the answers I've given and harder to publish; I'm wrestling with similar things myself. But the chances of real infamy are remarkably small; you're far more likely to be hit by a bus, which would be worse.
Re: I'm afraid to show the world a tool which built to solve a billion dollar issue
#19Most people will hate it. People generally fear originality. Creativity is often a curse.
Success is the result of powering through this early hate and reaching the necessary point of critical adoption rate.
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#20Everyone likes to think that their project or solution meets a humongous need that everyone should be clamoring for; but it is far harder than you think. People become entrenched in the status-quo and will often resist change, even in the tech field where innovation is the watchword.
I have been working for years on a new kind of data management system. I was convinced that once I proved that it could organize files better than file systems and find things based off tags thousands of times faster; that people would adopt it. I was also convinced that if I could make it do relational table queries twice as fast as the competition, that it would likewise spur mass adoption.
In spite of making it do those things, it remains an uphill battle to get people to try it out.