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They made it look way easier in the Zuckerberg movie (alien.top)
submitted 11 months ago by cupojoe4me@alien.top to c/sideproject@indiehackers.space
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When I got into SAAS, I thought it went like this:

  • Build a project you have in your head
  • Profit

No one told me about validation, marketing, and sales! And I only figured it out 6 months after coding up my first project, finding 0 users. Why is it so hard to understand the importance of these concepts for programmers? It's like we insist on only learning them after we fail.

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[–] gizmo777@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

This is just how everyone thinks by default. Everyone thinks if you just have the right idea you'll be successful. "Oh if I'd just come up with Snapchat I'd be a billionaire!" But because the average person doesn't have the ability to implement an idea at all, they never get proven wrong.

Programmers do have the ability to implement a lot of their ideas, so they learn the hard way that that's not how it works.