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What's your opinion of the Georgia Tech course? I'm just on their website checking out the curriculum, seems pretty straight to the point.
Can you drop the link to it? I'm not sure if you mean the bootcamp.
What in the oompa-loompa is a microfounder?
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Many developers don't want to deliver a high-impact product. They want to enjoy the process of creation, earn some reasonable money and make lifes of some people better.
> don't want to deliver a high-impact product > earn some reasonable money These two are in opposition
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> my default view is that I don't want to lie or over-promise This is the greatest prejudice around marketing in the tech community. A simple exercise you can do that debunks that frame of thought: lies are unsustainable. Unless you're a government or a monopoly that has their predictable flow of revenue, lies aren't affordable. You can lie and scam people, but that's not a long term strategy, because you'll burn off…
> lies are unsustainable. All sorts of things are "unsustainable". It only has to be sustainable long enough to cash out.
But just because they use marketing tools to achieve that objective, it doesn't make marketing "evil" or "all about lies" - hell they're surely also using some tech stack to have the whole operation going.
Does that make tech evil, or a vehicle to spread lies, scams, frauds?
No. It's just what people do with it.
Would it make sense to make a twitter channel around a product for marketing purposes and direct traffic to it or rather to my personal one?
I have almost no following at the moment, so they would both effectively be equivalent (be starting from scratch).
In one way I can see the benefit in building an audience for other products in the future, but it still feels a bit odd to me.
Twitter has been huge for me to find my customers. I'll just DM people who talk about relevant topics and tweet once a day about what I'm working on. I just got my first paying customer (a big one too) through someone retweeting one of my tweets. At the end of the day your customers are people too.
I agree that marketing is scary, and a good book about this is "Show Your Work".
Here's the thing. Developers are generally perfectionists and marketers are realists. As a Developer, I am naturally uncomfortable with marketing because my default view is that I don't want to lie or over-promise and I don't like fluffy claims. Marketers and sales people can be less bothered about facts but I think much of the time, we just think that, the truth is that there can be a lot of fact-based marketing but…
> my default view is that I don't want to lie or over-promise This is the greatest prejudice around marketing in the tech community. A simple exercise you can do that debunks that frame of thought: lies are unsustainable. Unless you're a government or a monopoly that has their predictable flow of revenue, lies aren't affordable. You can lie and scam people, but that's not a long term strategy, because you'll burn off…
What in the oompa-loompa is a microfounder?
Anyway, if you wanted to market your product how would you even do that? Just buy ads on YouTube and google?
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What makes it better than what’s out there? There are a lot of tools in this space!
It's designed from the ground up for async collaboration and focus (you collaborate on decisions like you might an issue, rather than interruptive chat discussions or worse, meetings.) It's based on how I saw collab work at a unicorn I worked at that was doing remote work well pre-pandemic, and that I've seen replicated elsewhere. However, it feels very foreign to people who haven't experienced that. What I've seen i…
This doesn’t really tell me anything. Can you provide a real-world example of how it would work on a project? Is there a ~10 second video or gif of it in action? Or even more basic, what specifically made you angry enough with existing tools that you felt the need to create this? What did you want to do that you couldn’t? (And please avoid the term async in your explanation - it will help you be clearer).