I don't know you, and I don't have startup advice to give. But take care of yourself. There are people in your life that will care about you outside of your success or failure with startups. Try something else for a while and forget that this echo chamber exists. Hope you are able to put this behind you.
I am done. I give up
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#592Earlier quoted context omitted.
Unfortunately another component of the Nordic model that makes it work is that everybody trusts the government. This is what makes the Nordic model hard to translate to other settings in my opinion.
They're high trust societies in general, partially because they're small monocultures. As Robert Putnam's research shows, in multicultural societies, especially large ones, trust rapidly declines, surprisingly even within cultural groups. Trust in government falls even more rapidly as each group starts to perceive those in power as being more favorable to one group or another, even if those in power are from their ow…
I don’t think you can describe at least Sweden and Norway as monocultural. They’ve had waves of immigration since the world wars and I think Sweden had the most immigration per capita in Europe during the Syrian refuge crisis.
That’s not to say it’s a rosy picture of multiculturalism, there has been at least a building up of angst in the minority parties over immigration (and islam).
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#593Sounds like you ignored Product Market Fit and were building solutions in search of problems.
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#594Yeah been there, luckily enough i almost always had also a job so failure was always an option.
Only projects that worked for me where of different nature which didnt require marketing to make money, one could say hacking side projects.
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Says the person who attacked a commenter for being "privileged." I'm just helping defend him against your irrelevant accusations of privilege (even though you know nothing about him) while he's attempting to discuss ways to become successful without being a trust funder. He has given us a very helpful and insightful perspective, and since you cannot add to his useful discussion, you instead interrupt by him being the…
Nobody was "attacked". Saying that having specific options that aren't afforded to everyone is an acknowledgement that neither negates their point or is an attack on a person. It is, as you say, adding to the perspective, based exclusively on what they said; I'm not jumping to conclusions as you allude. Contrast that to your snarky reply. The fact that you thought that comment was an attack demonstrates a lack of the…
No, you absolutely bullied him. And now instead of apologizing, you're doubling down. He never claimed to be a starving African child. He told us what he had to do to make up for his limitations, and instead of working with that conversation, you chose to denigrate his efforts.
You're right that I'm not adding to his discourse. I'm just trying to hush the people who are attempting to bully him.
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#596Earlier quoted context omitted.
Nobody said plumbers are poor.
"the poor kid learns plumbing from his dad." ..........
That doesn't mean his dad's a plumber, it means his dad showed him some basic plumbing and he took an interest in it that later turned into a career. That's fairly basic reading comprehension so the "........." like I'm an idiot isn't necessary when you're the one adding a bunch of additional context that isn't there.
And let's not forget it's a made up example.
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> I really cannot grasp the individualism about "I know how to write code, I deserve a better life than 95% of the population". What if we worded this in a different way: "I have a skill which is more in demand than the skills of 95% of the population"
And this is why I say that I understand the economics behind it. Still, it doesn't mean I _deserve_ a high salary: I totally get why I get it, but I don't work harder, or studied harder, or really did anything more special than 95% of the population. So, while I am able to earn more, I am happy to share part of it with the society as a whole, and this is why I am happy about my level of taxes, compared to the service…
>Still, it doesn't mean I _deserve_ a high salary: I totally get why I get it, but I don't work harder, or studied harder, or really did anything more special than 95% of the population.
I don't think any other (widely popular) work occupies so much of a one's mind as software engineering.
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#598Why do "indiehackers" want attention from and create products for other "indiehackers"? As a group they seem the people with the least amount of money to spend on products, and are some of the most cheapskate people on the planet. Here's some advice: if you want to make money selling a software product, sell to people who are able and willing to spend money on it.
This. It's the "developers trying to sell products to other developers" conundrum. You know the development workflow. You came up with a great tool to increase productivity for developers. You set a low price of $50. And yet no one is going to buy it because "lol I could do this in a weekend". Developers are cheap bastards (I'm still fighting over whether I should shell our $99 for Panic's Nova editor or not - even t…
> Developers are cheap bastards
Am a developer and can confirm. I am a cheap bastard.
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#600Also, aren't stats something like 1 in 10 startups succeeds? Or one in 100? So you have a long way to go.