Re:They lied to you. Building software is hard
by anonymous344 on Monday February 02, 2026 @01:49PM
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it's not the making part, it's the making a competitive end-result.
in 2000 only needed to make something and it was good enough. now you need marketing budget of 10 000$ and skills for that also
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Re:They lied to you. Building software is hard
by Jensson on Monday February 02, 2026 @01:58PM
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> in 2000 only needed to make something and it was good enough. now you need marketing budget of 10 000$ and skills for that also
You needed much more marketing budget in 2000 than today, I think you have that reversed. There is a reason indie basically wasn't a thing until steam could do marketing for you.
Re:They lied to you. Building software is hard
by anonymous344 on Thursday February 12, 2026 @12:54AM
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just made some app in the nokia store or something and it sold globally without marketing
made a website / webshop with valid html and people found it and became customers
now you can't even post in any social media without paying, they won't show your posts almost to no-one, even if you have the followers. not to mention apple store and google play, every category and nice already has 20 000 apps and games in them.