It's lovely that the creator of this poll neglected to put down Apple as an option.
Poll: Where do you work?
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#122Large insurance company with a niche member base, multi-billion dollar revenue.
Web/Voice is the only client portal we have, though, so you could almost call us a web company.
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#123Twitter.
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#124Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 a…
Do you mean "is not particularly hard to build"?
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#125Startup founder (and sole employee) here. Interesting poll, but at first I thought you meant "where" as in what location. That's a very interesting question that I'd like to hear answered. Especially if you're freelance, on your own, remote, or otherwise don't have an office to go to. What I've noticed is that I can't seem to work in the same physical spot for more than 2 months in a row or so. After that all my crea…
I was confused too, so I decided to create the work-location: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2146037
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#126foursquare! (ps: we're hiring! http://foursquare.com/jobs/ )
This company rocks!
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#127Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 a…
Do you mean "is not particularly hard to build"?
ugh, yep I did - edited. Thanks for the catch :) it's late and I've been typing a report for the last 5 hours or so ;)
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#128I'm going to guess I'm in the HN minority—Design Director for a Southern East Coast church.
Hold on! Churches have Design Directors in the US? Wow, just wow!
I sell plenty of web software to churches. My experience is that many are big into web as a way of both organising and delivering content to their existing congregation, but also as a low-impact way of extending their reach both within and beyond their communities.
Then there's all the side-charity-businesses that churches often run, like adoption services, funeral services, education, etc etc etc.
While some are often done by a tech-savvy member of the church on a strict budget, others are built by teams and seemingly have healthy budgets.
In short - www and churches is a growing segment in my anecdotal experience. Put it this way, I see more churches than, say, auto mechanics or pet shops.
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#129Earlier quoted context omitted.
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?
> 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? Absolutely. Software that runs warehouses. Payrolls. Manages inventory. Manages cash registers. Figures out how to optimize manufacturing across multiple vendors, multiple workstations. Robotics. Warehouse automation and robotics. Embedded systems. 3d rendering. Automated trading.…
right, oracle easily beats most of these so called web company. small ponds, people.
one deal from these companies can feed a cool startup for 3 years.
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#130IBM