>when clearly they add no value at all to the businesses who use them or their customers.
They do add value. Product management is about two things: product discovery and product delivery. Canny increases your chances of doing the 1st one right. That is the most difficult thing to do: finding the right product to build. Canny allows you to get direct feedback and learnings from your users in a very simple way and most importantly, in a cost effective one. If you look at their pricing page, you might get scared, but believe me: building the wrong product is even more expensive.
Re:How we built a $1M ARR SaaS startup
by HatchedLake721 on Monday October 05, 2020 @06:50PM
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Have you ever considered that you might be wrong about “these kinds of tools” not having value?
Yes. I thought they did for a long time, but having used them as a developer and project manager and seen the harm they cause, I learned that they destroy value by creating unnecessary bureaucracy which has taken on Kafkaesque proportions in recent years.
The only people who claim that these tools add value are people whose jobs depend on the existence of these tools. There are a LOT, a LOT of such people. I would say at least 90% of office workers today and increasing.
Re:How we built a $1M ARR SaaS startup
by seattletech on Monday October 05, 2020 @06:01PM
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My new disruptive startup will TEAR DOWN THOSE WALLS for the wall-less experience
The Fed will keep printing more and more money and jobs will become increasingly useless. It terrifies me to think that the situation could get worse than this and most people still won't notice.
If it continues down this path, in the future, we'll have people whose entire career will be to sit at a desk and stare at a wall from 9am to 5pm and their employers will seriously believe that this activity adds value to the economy. We'll have consultancies which specialize in wall staring. Some will specialize in staring at white concrete walls, others at wooden walls, etc...
It might sound like I'm joking, but I'm very serious.