I suppose there are a lot of reasons (see the other reply) but my thinking when posting was this:
In-N-Out is a burger joint with a niche meaning they have a few million customers. Those customers come by maybe once or twice a week to get a meal. Apply that same number of customers to the software industry and you'll have trouble surviving because they're either only going to pay you once or in the case of websites pay you little to nothing. So my conclusion was that an In-N-Out level success would not be what most software developers would be interested in.
So that was it. The logic isn't exactly air tight (if you want to be a one man show you could do perfectly well with a few million visitors) but it was what I meant when I posted
I disagree - I feel that in software if anything there's a huge amount of room for niche products.
My favourite story here is someone I know who runs an online drag-racing simulator game sort of thing. Lots of social interaction, trading parts, earning in-game money, etc, all subscription-based.
He doesn't have a huge number of players - but he's found enough die-hard supporters that he enjoys a very comfortable standard of living (certainly makes more than your average software engineer).
You don't need to make $0.01 from a million people if you can make $10 from 1000 people.
Oh, and there's more to software than the web - this is something that I think people are forgetting in the day and age of Google and Twitter.
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I suppose there are a lot of reasons (see the other reply) but my thinking when posting was this:
In-N-Out is a burger joint with a niche meaning they have a few million customers. Those customers come by maybe once or twice a week to get a meal. Apply that same number of customers to the software industry and you'll have trouble surviving because they're either only going to pay you once or in the case of websites pay you little to nothing. So my conclusion was that an In-N-Out level success would not be what most software developers would be interested in.
So that was it. The logic isn't exactly air tight (if you want to be a one man show you could do perfectly well with a few million visitors) but it was what I meant when I posted
I disagree - I feel that in software if anything there's a huge amount of room for niche products.
My favourite story here is someone I know who runs an online drag-racing simulator game sort of thing. Lots of social interaction, trading parts, earning in-game money, etc, all subscription-based.
He doesn't have a huge number of players - but he's found enough die-hard supporters that he enjoys a very comfortable standard of living (certainly makes more than your average software engineer).
You don't need to make $0.01 from a million people if you can make $10 from 1000 people.
Oh, and there's more to software than the web - this is something that I think people are forgetting in the day and age of Google and Twitter.