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by Azsy 1566 days ago
I would counter that some of the best software was built to simply fix a problem the dev had.

Although you could argue the market had at least one interested party.

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I’m good at slowly building a product I understand. I’m horrible at iterating quickly and I’m not super great at whipping out a front end. I might try random business ideas when I have money to risk on such things, but for now I make a better employee than entrepreneur. I had a modestly successful recruiting business with a Rails app about 10 years ago, but I’m glad to be free of it. I had a chance to sell for like 2x my annual income and transitioned to software development. It was a great decision and I make more money as a developer than I ever did as a recruiter.