Re:But what if I want a faster horse?
by germinalphrase on Friday April 11, 2025 @09:23AM
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The Hustler and the Nerd are the co-founding duo. Domain expertise is an obvious plus, but a “non-technical” Domain Expert is a third wheel.
> ... because they've never done anything other than software engineering, so they don't know any good problems to solve.
That is indeed a big problem with software engineering/engineers today. No other expertise other than being a framework monkey.
Indie Hackers is full of people trying to flog their shit AI-powered marketing SaaS, because they've never done anything other than software engineering, so they don't know any good problems to solve. There are uncountably many good problems out there, each with thousands of people who would pay you money to solve them, but those people don't know their problems can be solved by a computer, so you have to go out into the world to find them yourself.