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07-30-2013, 06:58 AM
A good # of my friends are coders, programmers, developers, software engineers...et cetera.
Most of them don't seem to build stuff for themselves.
I've always thought that was weird. Like being a chef and only eating out.
Do you make your own web products, apps? software?
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07-30-2013, 07:26 AM
Yep and I ended up making a business selling my own stuff. All my programs came out of necessity. While enhancements come from customer feedback, a lot still come from my own needs.
I guess if you are working for someone else programming all day, going home to write more code wouldn't appeal to many.
I will be hiring others to take over this year.
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07-30-2013, 07:40 AM
Programmers usually work on pieces of a greater project. There's usually a scope to the project along with some kind of workflow or flow chart.
What I'm saying is you need concept to start with and for some reason they rarely have their own ideas.
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07-30-2013, 10:13 AM
Alot probably aren't entrepreneurial, and wouldn't want to be.
My guess is many programmers probably love the problem-solving and engineering but wouldn't want to touch the business world of selling a product to customers.
I know many would shudder at the thought of having to deal with sales, marketing, user interfaces, dealing with customers, etc.
That said, many DO work on opensource projects and contribute to Github etc. Some amazing stuff has been made for free by people who just love their craft.
Making products, marketing and selling is a game in itself though, not everyone wants to tackle it.
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07-30-2013, 11:53 AM
About 90 percent of this forum doesnt have a blog or twitter....
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07-30-2013, 11:58 AM
Many programmers will build small little scripts to automate repetitive tasks for themselves. Many will contribute to open source projects, and many do build apps that "solve their own problem" and then go on to sell them successfully.
Many also never come close to consumer products or apps because they work on embedded systems or large-scale distributed networks or something else deep in the trenches.
And many wouldn't want to do anything commercial because they're averse to marketing/sales/business/customer interactions.
TL;DR - some do build and sell apps, but of course not all, for a number of reasons.
Not sure what you guys are exactly arguing about, haha.
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07-30-2013, 01:57 PM
The problem with the chef analogy is that every single meal has to be prepared by someone or something. There is no food that is as easily replicated as software is replicated, and the most easily replicated food has noticeable quality differences.