Building a Product: One month later, $119.50 in the bank

Re:Building a Product: One month later, $119.50 in the bank by ahoyhere on Tuesday April 03, 2012 @03:56PM (#3794528)

I see that the majority of the business world has pathetic technical vision, but a lot more money.

Careful. They may have more money in aggregate, but a lot of them don't buy tech solutions, don't want to change, aren't actually business-minded (e.g. always looking for improvements). This goes double for local biz like bars, restaurants, salons, and stores, and triple for education and nonprofit and NGOs.

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Re:Building a Product: One month later, $119.50 in the bank by toumhi on Tuesday April 03, 2012 @05:47PM (#3794963)

I'm actually realizing that now.

I'm also finding hard to motivate myself to make something for people that are very different from me (I have a file sharing solution catered to small businesses in France). I imagine it's easier when you care naturally more about your end users.

When all my friends think this market is super-saturated, what I find out is that most of these small business people are just happy to use emails and the occasional FTP.

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Re:Building a Product: One month later, $119.50 in the bank by dasil003 on Wednesday April 04, 2012 @03:17PM (#3799323)

I don't mean selling to them, I mean disrupting them. You can steal a lot of people's business right out from under them simply by bringing the efficiency of technology. But you need the domain knowledge, that's the barrier to entry.

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