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by maipen 37 days ago
The "worst" part of this comment, is that it's not even exaggeration. In the last 6 months, my competition increased 5x. People that didn't have the skills to compete, now do. My margins will keep shrinking while hardware and servers gets more expensive.

It's a fucking miserable future for us software people.

Architecting and "good taste" won't be good enough to put food on the table next year...
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ChadNauseam 37 days ago
It might be miserable for you, but it sounds great for your customers. I am genuinely sympathetic though.
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devsda 37 days ago
A healthy competition is always good for the customer but I have my doubts on the healthy part.

A flood of fly by night products with low effort mess is going to lower the trust in genuine indie development products and could drive users towards established names in the industry.

In some way it's like the new PR flood on github. On the surface more PRs looks like a positive thing but it had unintended consequences.

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qlte 37 days ago
Like the famous Market for Lemons, where a similar information asymmetry produces market failure that ends up making things worse for both buyers and sellers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Market_for_Lemons

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1123581321 37 days ago
New signals of trustworthiness will emerge (are already emerging.)

More shots at the big names is not going to entrench them, even if most of those shots don't go anywhere.

The big names also need to stay competitive against internally developed solutions inside what would have been their bread-and-butter enterprise customers, so they have to compete on features and quality like indies.

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downrightmike 37 days ago
Now we have 100 fly by night vendors! Awesome!
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usef- 36 days ago
Reputation will matter more than ever before
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kelnos 36 days ago
How do you build reputation when you have 100 competitors who will do shady things to get customers before pulling the rug out from under them. Your pockets aren't deep enough to survive until there are pieces to pick up.
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2143 36 days ago
> People that didn't have the skills to compete, now do.

Come on now, you can’t be mad that people acquired the skills.

Realize that whatever your frustration is, those people who acquired the skills are probably not the root cause of whatever is currently going on, in the bigger picture sense.

Maybe a lot of them can now put food on their table.

I sincerely hope things work out for you.

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