Ask HN: Best business advice for software developers
If you build it, they will not come!<p>Scream it in a loud voice, IF YOU BUILD IT, THEY WILL NOT COME!<p>You are going to have to build it, find them, plead with them, fight their refusals and shove it down their throat.<p>There are many unknown &quot;unicorns&quot; that currently exist as code.  The code is done, there&#x27;s just no users, because the world doesn&#x27;t even know it&#x27;s a thing and those that do know have not being convinced that it&#x27;s needed.<p>My opinion, my advice.   Forget the code, find the customers&#x2F;market first.<p>A software developer with complete code and no customers is just a software developer.<p>A business person with tons of customers and no software&#x2F;product is in business.<p>So decide if you want to be in business or to be a software developer.  I suspect that most developers just dream about business as a means of escape from their day to day reality, but secretly don&#x27;t even want to be in business, they love writing code more than being in business.