“About one-third of Basecamp employees accepted buyouts today”

Re:“About one-third of Basecamp employees accepted buyouts t... by lelanthran on Saturday May 01, 2021 @05:19AM (#27004691)

> 6 months free money is not as much as you'd think; a new job hunt takes 3, even for talented, in-demand people.

If you're a developer, that's enough runway to launch a side-business. After all, job-searching is hardly time-consuming (it takes so little time that people do it while already employed in a full-time position).

Yeah, some folk will sit at home binge-watching netflix for 6 months. I can all but guarantee you that I will have a product at the end of six months if I was unemployed for six months.

At the end of the time I'll have a new job and a product (whether the product actually makes money or not is irrelevant. Getting a product to sell is the first step).

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Re:“About one-third of Basecamp employees accepted buyouts t... by zrail on Saturday May 01, 2021 @06:23AM (#27005035)

> Getting a product to sell is the first step

Super tangent on the thread but if you want a product that people are interested in you might think about using a process like Nathan Barry's Authority or 30x500. Not that those are the best or only ways to make a product, of course, but they're at least a direction to take to figure out what people want, need, and buy.

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Re:“About one-third of Basecamp employees accepted buyouts t... by lelanthran on Saturday May 01, 2021 @06:36AM (#27005108)

Thanks, I'll look it up.

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