[heisenbit]

Most software projects fail and do not deliver value. Code is not delivered, code is not taken into use, code is not used much. Software is capital intensive and risky. Code can be more valuable than gold but its value is determined by many factors other than skill and effort of the developer.

[theK]

True, but you can’t figure out what product will fly and which not unless you actually build it. So you are stuck ;-)

Granted, one can filter out 99% of product ideas on a whiteboard but the remaining 1% is still enormously huge. And that 1% is actually the stuff that nowadays gets started.