Dogfooding is good, but I wonder to what extent it has become the case that problems that programmers have (solved by software that programmers will use and can easily evaluate how it works) are already solved pretty well by open source programs. I mean, imagine trying to sell a compiler. Good luck.
If you want to sell software, maybe one of the biggest markets to play in is software that programmers don’t find interesting to write and use?
There’s clearly not a 100% overlap between problems that programmers find interesting and open source projects. But it is applying not so favorable filter, right?
It's maybe no coincidence that some of the biggest companies that actually sell software (as opposed to user data) that I can think of are Epic, Salesforce, and Intuit. Imagine spending your evenings on volunteer work for a CRM system, bleh.
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Dogfooding is good, but I wonder to what extent it has become the case that problems that programmers have (solved by software that programmers will use and can easily evaluate how it works) are already solved pretty well by open source programs. I mean, imagine trying to sell a compiler. Good luck.
If you want to sell software, maybe one of the biggest markets to play in is software that programmers don’t find interesting to write and use?
There’s clearly not a 100% overlap between problems that programmers find interesting and open source projects. But it is applying not so favorable filter, right?
It's maybe no coincidence that some of the biggest companies that actually sell software (as opposed to user data) that I can think of are Epic, Salesforce, and Intuit. Imagine spending your evenings on volunteer work for a CRM system, bleh.