| I was sparked on this “one graph” idea real hard when I learned about graph databases (which I still say has one of the biggest marketing hurdles to overcome since graph and database mean very specific and well-rooted things) and I will say something that was a blind spot until recently: Neurotypical people don’t normally think in terms of connections. Many of my peers (ended up interviewing probably 100 of them) for example felt that the standard testing questions of “X is to Y as A is to _____” were thrown in to give everyone a break. Neuroypical people can even struggle to understand analogy while to the ND folk they can be as fluid and understandable as breathing or walking. This is why I think there are significant gaps in the market as OP pointed out. To get there it takes someone who: - Thinks with connections as a “first class citizen” (this might even just be the subcategory of kinaesthetic learners) - Has the programming skills to create a useful tool for scratching their own itch - Has the awareness that other people might have the same problem, and further has the interest in doing (10?x) the work to make it generally useful for others - Has the marketing skills and/or the connections required to get visibility and traction Then to take it to the next level they have to prove that there is a market for it. If none of us understand that the market is small to start with, it would be understandable for someone to see 10% of that market as a complete waste of time since it’s 0.0/\d*/1% of the market they assumed they were targeting. I may be entirely off the mark. I’ve been thinking about this for a few years during my transition to software development and having conversations as I go but a lot of these thoughts are still internally-compassed. |
[1] https://wiki.c2.com/?MappersVsPackers