Things I’ve Learned from Reading IndieHackers

Re:Things I’ve Learned from Reading IndieHackers by _jal on Wednesday July 19, 2017 @09:40PM (#14809447)

Other folks have pointed out that NeXT had a successful exit and the software lives on, to which I'd add a nice continuing career path for many of its employees (with Apple).

Can I ask what metrics you're judging by?

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Re:Things I’ve Learned from Reading IndieHackers by ThomPete on Thursday July 20, 2017 @05:07AM (#14810984)

Those folks are missing the point. Next was bought and brought into apples ecosystem thats were the found sucess none of that was part of any plan. Again luck and timing, ifJjobs hadnt been introduced the chances of Next being incorporated into Apple would be much less likely.

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Re:Things I’ve Learned from Reading IndieHackers by _jal on Friday July 21, 2017 @03:26AM (#14818706)

That seems like a high bar for 'success' that I'm not sure many share. Lots of startups people deem successful had exits that weren't originally part of the plan. Luck and timing are huge parts of 'success'.

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Re:Things I’ve Learned from Reading IndieHackers by ThomPete on Friday July 21, 2017 @05:06AM (#14819072)

And many many times more didn't. You can't just look at the succesful ones thats the whole point. Most fail 9 out of 10.

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Re:Things I’ve Learned from Reading IndieHackers by _jal on Friday July 21, 2017 @12:05PM (#14821580)

I don't understand what you're arguing. Of course most startups fail. What does that have to do with how people view NeXT?

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Re:Things I’ve Learned from Reading IndieHackers by ThomPete on Tuesday July 25, 2017 @04:11AM (#14846043)

We are talking about companies who are successful because of their product/services/business. Not companies who get saved from going under by some other company. Next was saved.

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