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by redis_mlc
2060 days ago
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That's a common strategy in the West. Basecamp basically did that, and Slack was a parallel project while developing something else. One Michigan company was doing CRUD apps on contract, wrote a nice code generator, then swiched over to using the code generator internally (not for sale) to scale up to state government contracts. In Asia (China, Indonesia), it's common for unfunded startups to start an internet cafe for revenue/office space, then once that's operating do product or contract software development. (Internet cafes require constant staffing, so any "profit" is mostly paid out in salaries to the owners and family.) |
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