After 3 Years, I Failed. Here's All My Startup's Code

Post by gkoberger » Sat, Dec 21, 2024, 7:33 PM UTC

mdaniel wrote: post #281

gkoberger wrote: post #49

Oh, it looks like we were competitors! I'm the founder of ReadMe.com, and we do API docs (as well as SDKs and more). I don't really know why, specifically, we ended up being successful. I know I also had a lot of false starts – slightly iterating on the core idea until I hit something people were visibly excited about. I also knew it was a hard market, so I put a lot of my time and effort into non-engineering things.…

Since you're here, I wanted to say that the css transition on readme's login has stuck with me as the strongest branding element I can recall. Kudos to whomever came up with that because it is just excellent

Post by sourcepluck » Sun, Dec 29, 2024, 8:34 PM UTC

palmfacehn wrote: post #58

giraffe_lady wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah exactly. You can't just roll out of bed one morning and grustle out a stable enterprise application. Also: > customers paying $20k/yr or more have extremely high expectations across the board. They definitely do, in certain ways. But also a lot of the software companies use sucks shit. But this part of the other comment cracked me up. > a medium sized traditional industry that has ancient, crummy software This i…

>This is actually how to do it but the thing they're leaving out is that you have to already have knowledge of the specific industry and its players, their niches, and the software they use within them. In most cases, this requires at least one former employee who used the crummy software. Most likely this person would be the one to identify the problem and propose an alternative solution. Information like this is ex…