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Re:Show HN: Crondom by delano on Thursday December 16, 2010 @04:21AM (#2011546)
It's great to live in a time when developers can build products for other developers.
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Re:Show HN: Crondom by mike-cardwell on Thursday December 16, 2010 @06:49AM (#2011735)
When was that ever not the case?
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Re:Show HN: Crondom by delano on Thursday December 16, 2010 @10:15AM (#2012264)
The key word was products, i.e. making a living from building tools for other developers.

There are many more developer-run companies today than there were 10 years ago and the number will continue to grow. There have never been more opportunities to do that than right now.

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Re:Show HN: Crondom by chc on Thursday December 16, 2010 @04:12PM (#2013711)
AFAIK, it's actually the opposite — only recently is this a hard thing, with the proliferation of OSS development tools.
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Re:Show HN: Crondom by delano on Friday December 17, 2010 @11:51AM (#2016743)
OSS is an opportunity. It's not about the software; it's about the services and the ecosystem. There are a lot of people making money from Wordpress plugins, themes, and development.
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