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Re:Was there a tech-hiring bubble? Indeed.com job postings d... by linkdd on Wednesday March 15, 2023 @04:33AM (#35165428)
> Individual engineers prove over and over again that they can start multi-million dollar businesses

Beware of survivor bias, for every successful business, there might be a 1000 failed ones.

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Re:Was there a tech-hiring bubble? Indeed.com job postings d... by ben_w on Wednesday March 15, 2023 @04:53AM (#35165572)
> there might be a 1000 failed ones.

For example, me.

(Hmm, perhaps I should try to use GPT to turn my old desktop Java shareware into browser-based Javascript freeware).

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Re:Was there a tech-hiring bubble? Indeed.com job postings d... by linkdd on Wednesday March 15, 2023 @09:14AM (#35167850)
It's kinda the same for me, our product solved a problem that was not enough annoying to people for them to consider buying it, so we never had the product market fit, and never managed to sell a single license. The company still exists today, but it's mainly surviving with us doing freelance work and hoping one of our side project might generate some revenue.

Maybe as open-source, the product could have some success, but I don't know how to "sell" open-source or make a revenue from it.

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