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You are narrowly focusing on developer tools. (Or not—there are places where you keep saying "software" where it only makes sense to interpret it as "software (sold to other software developers".) The article is about mold, but I specifically replied to the claims of someone commenting about the difficulty of "monetising _any_ type of software".

(I had a whole paragraph about how selling developer tooling to developers is hard, but that doesn't account for all software markets. I took it out, because it made the post too long and was already belaboring a point that was out of scope. I maintain that there are circumstances where selling software to SMBs is way easier than what's on the other side of the fence. Consider: developing a payments app for coin-operated laundromats that allows them to issue credits for people who want to pay with a card instead of quarters vs the business comprising the laundromat itself. The laundromat has geographical constraints that just don't apply to the app developer—who can sell as many copies as they're able to to anyone pretty much anywhere. They can also rip out a huge chunk and repurpose it for a different type of payments app that has nothing to do with laundromats—and the app can be shitty, like most enterprise software, because the laundromat owner is not the user and is only thinking about the fact that the app enables something now that was not possible before. In contrast, the laundromat itself is affected by not just whether there are enough people in the city to carry the business forward, but the specific location within the city where the laundromat is placed.)