Ask HN: What are the most important problems in your industry?

Re:Ask HN: What are the most important problems in your indu... by personjerry on Thursday April 20, 2017 @12:54PM (#14158426)

Have you heard of companies like Atlassian and Gitlab?

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Re:Ask HN: What are the most important problems in your indu... by nostrademons on Thursday April 20, 2017 @01:34PM (#14158895)

Jetbrains, Rational, Perforce, MySQL, GitHub, Trello, StackOverflow, Joyent, Powershell, etc as well.

The tricky part is that to monetize, you either need to master enterprise sales (which means that the product will take on some PHB-pleasing features that developers despise so they can get through procurement departments), or you need to be acquired by a big company looking to round out their developer tools offerings.

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Re:Ask HN: What are the most important problems in your indu... by amelius on Thursday April 20, 2017 @02:00PM (#14159149)

Those companies are running platforms. Not really a fair comparison.

Besides, I'm not literally saying there is no money in development tools. I'm saying that it's a difficult market.

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Re:Ask HN: What are the most important problems in your indu... by AznHisoka on Thursday April 20, 2017 @09:24PM (#14162387)

almost everything is a difficult market these days. at least with developers, you know where they hang out. try marketing a SaaS to farmers or construction companies online.

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Re:Ask HN: What are the most important problems in your indu... by Chris2048 on Friday April 21, 2017 @06:19AM (#14164311)

Is GitLab well funded?

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