geoffroberts

We keep inventing magic tools, declaring all that will die in their wake. A 50-year perspective on why this is almost never true, how magic tools help us, and why understanding the engineering is where the value always lies.

You clearly didn't read it haha. It's a joke, brotha.

Thank you! I appreciate you giving it a read.

Thanks for sharing! It's always great to hear about entrepreneurs that have found their way into an ideal work setup. Congrats to you!

This makes a ton of sense—far too few people reach this conclusion and realize that picking one path or another is a key to their sanity and happiness!

That's a good point and I agree with what you said. But I think so many customers are accustomed to working with large, public or VC backed companies where response times are near immediate, product polish is higher, etc. When that's viewed as "the norm" then life becomes harder for bootstrappers.

100%

I completely agree that bending over backwards for users is a competitive advantage and customers won't forget it. But that does need to somehow reconcile with your availability and life outside of work—that's the rub for small bootstrapped companies.

I agree with your points here. Expectation setting is key.