Best advice in the thread so far.
You’re chances of success are 10x higher trying to build technology for tanning salons than it is building the next new docker kubernetes react native infrastructure as a service.
Unsexy sells.
You’re chances of success are 10x higher trying to build technology for tanning salons than it is building the next new docker kubernetes react native infrastructure as a service.
Unsexy sells.
Except tanning salons (or hairstylists or dog walkers or plumbers) usually a) dont have cash to spend b) Dont see their problems as software related c) are in many cases hostile to software, due to geniune bad software
I remember some time ago when I used to hang out in bootstrapped.fm, every week a person would come in and say "Oh I built a software for salons/hairstylists/dog walkers" how I can sell it? 4 weeks later they had shutdown their business, and a new person would come in, rinse and repeat.
This is also why this (very good) advice is not so easy to follow in real life. You need multiple skillsets.
Guy owned two carwashes in Cary, NC. Thought technology could enable mobile carwashing. Got connected with the right technology people ...
If you're not as well placed as the incumbents at the core product (salon, sure), software will not save you.
If you're better placed than the incumbents at the core product, software doesn't matter.
If you're (roughly) equally placed as the incumbents at the core product, software can help you, but it will likely take a while to realize any competitive advantage.
And, I say placed, because there are a lot of factors at play. There's the quality of the service/product (itself a huge set of variables), pricing, location, and availability, to name a few. None of those will custom software directly help you with.
Not for me; it has to be sexy, world and life style changing. I’d rather build something like one of the top used apps or just be an employee at a tech co.