Poll: Where do you work? • Hacker News Board

Re: Poll: Where do you work?

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Post by dennisgorelik » Fri, Jan 28, 2011, 3:12 AM UTC

route66 wrote: post #165

jacquesm wrote: post #49

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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?

Just some personal observations which are anectdotal, but neverthelss give a hint: More than 2/3rd of the software companies our (web-related) company is collaborating with provide services which are not web related, they might use port 80/443 for webservices but not more. Casual observation of people around me reveals that almost no-one uses web based software at work. Instead all these companies they work for have…

I think lots of office workers use at least Google Search, which is web software.

Re: Poll: Where do you work?

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Post by astrofinch » Fri, Jan 28, 2011, 4:10 AM UTC

ErrantX wrote: post #170

astrofinch wrote: post #150

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Would you recommend working for enterprises to find out what sort of software they need, or can you just ask them?

The way I have found works is this; find a consultant who charges a lot of money to go and do X at a company (and who has a lot of business). Figure out a way for a company to do most of X itself with some software whilst still leaving some "wrapping up" or auditing for consultants to do. Convince consultant to come onboard with their expertise to help develop the software (revenue sharing deal). He/she becomes a rea…

Thanks!

Any tips on the "find a consultant who charges a lot of money to go and do X at a company" stage? Do consultants have conventions or anything like that?

Re: Poll: Where do you work?

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Post by retro212 » Fri, Jan 28, 2011, 10:50 AM UTC

I'm working at http://jupiterit.com , company behind the http://javascriptmvc.com

Re: Poll: Where do you work?

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Post by ompemi » Fri, Jan 28, 2011, 12:33 PM UTC

CERN

Re: Poll: Where do you work?

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Post by clistctrl » Fri, Jan 28, 2011, 10:38 PM UTC

rickdangerous1 wrote: post #136

cookiecaper wrote: post #58

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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…

shhhhhhhhh. Lets keep this as our big open secret. Let all the young hotshots chase after then next viral twitface/linkbook mashup web 3.0 dohicky while the rest of us mine the huge seams of paydirt in the unglamourous enterprise space.

I think a good part of it is mindset, a lot of the people on here are engineers. I know where to start when building a big complicated thing, but when it comes to getting a 3 million dollar PO... I'm out of my league.

Re: Poll: Where do you work?

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, Jan 28, 2011, 10:41 PM UTC

ladon86 wrote: post #166

larrik wrote: post #54

No one here works at Apple? No wonder iTunes is so bad on Windows.

I think rule 1 of working at Apple is you don't talk about working at Apple. Also rule 2, iirc.

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Re: Poll: Where do you work?

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Post by fredleblanc » Fri, Feb 04, 2011, 9:15 PM UTC

I work at a big-ish ad agency, but I aspire to do something more.