If you’re comfortable where you are as a business, and not looking for more than steady revenue growth in your core market, then finding efficiencies is a fine use of time.
I know that mindset is antithetical to the VC “make every chart a hockey stick” culture, which is well-represented here on HN. But actually tons of businesses are run that way.
Tech is seen in this very biased lens because Tech seems to be the only place imo that VC's are genuinely interested in seeing very high growth in.
They want to know that they have bet on the next google and they want to know it fast.
Actually, it is real funny that we are talking about this on a forum which is funded by y-combinator/ a lot of this VC nuance.
I don't know man, if I can be honest or not, but I was thinking for a moment and the whole idea of tech seems to be a lot more overflated man... , as a dev, I was just thinking about the influence of money and I was genuinely just wondering what is the fastest way I can make money and It was probably creating a proprietory product and selling the startup / getting VC fund-ed and not organic growth.
I am still very nuanced though, on one hand, both of these go against my personal philosophy, I myself would "love" to open source (preferably MIT but hey AGPL would also cut the deal like the recent redis...) my product and probably have no 0 VC funding.
But on the other hand, I am not sure, A lot of what I feel like building, is probably immature, its better off hidden. I am using Ai to build a lot of stuff for now, and I am not quite proud of it.
I feel, that as someone who has made very meaningless contributions (I guess?) in my past and while I was writing this comment, I was getting this vague sense of an issue being popped up on whatever software I create with "WHY DOESN'T IT WORK" and no issues or nothing.... I don't know, it makes it less lucrative to open source, quite frankly any product.
Maybe I want an AI which can genuinely resolve such very meaningless issues but I also don't trust AI, what if there are some issues which are actually good and AI filters it wrong.
I don't know man. I was thinking about this yesterday and I just realized that I am not thinking this much, I would do whatever I think in the heat of the moment.
I know that mindset is antithetical to the VC “make every chart a hockey stick” culture, which is well-represented here on HN. But actually tons of businesses are run that way.