My point is more that years ago you could thing "I'll make a windows utility to solve this problem" and you could probably charge for it. Now there will be an open source thing that is pretty good quality that will do it for free. You can still sell your solution but that's really a marketing exercise, finding people who don't know about the free solution (or want support) but the code itself isn't worth much. The music analogy would be you might pay $10 to see a local band live if they advertised well, but there is probably a lot of hustle in that, but you might not go around paying $10 for music cds anymore. Not with spotify, youtube, etc.
This leads to the GI Joe phenomenon: https://www.drud.com/ddev-local/the-website-rfp-the-impossib...
"features are cheap and details are expensive". Music is all features, code is a mix.