You can't impress developers. So don't try

Re:You can't impress developers. So don't try by meditate on Wednesday October 31, 2018 @04:32PM (#18349057)

I personally have paid for software in the past, but I don't do it much anymore because:

A) Self-funding a startup has required me to become quite frugal

B) Giving money to competitors is almost always a mistake

Unfortunately that's the way things go. I would like to be able to afford more, but so would everyone else.

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Re:You can't impress developers. So don't try by moystard on Wednesday October 31, 2018 @04:41PM (#18349129)

Great tools can save you an immense amount of time = money, so it should not be as black & white, even with startups in their early days.

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Re:You can't impress developers. So don't try by meditate on Wednesday October 31, 2018 @04:48PM (#18349175)

I have also been at startups that wasted large amounts of time and capital trying to work with the wrong tools. The risk isn't worth it especially when a lot of other startups in the same ecosystem (competitors for the same VC dollars) will happily sell you an unfinished product and then shut down a year later and stop supporting it.

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