What’s more valuable, your idea or your secret?

Re:What’s more valuable, your idea or your secret? by jwatte on Monday August 15, 2016 @04:51PM (#12293329)

Ability to execute is worth more.

Ability to build good product is worth more than ability to build good back end.

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Re:What’s more valuable, your idea or your secret? by chii on Monday August 15, 2016 @07:33PM (#12294382)

Is not a good product a good back end and a good front end together?

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Re:What’s more valuable, your idea or your secret? by jwatte on Monday August 15, 2016 @11:42PM (#12295392)

Depends on the product, and who defines "good." The back end of most big products you use (PayPal, eBay, etc) are probably pretty "bad" from an objective back end engineer's point of view, but they're "good enough" to deliver the product.

Meanwhile, problems in the front end are more immediately felt when using the product.

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