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Show HN: This is why I built my startup

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After a sprint towards MVP, we are about to launch what I hope is our most successful project yet. This is what motivated me.

http://blog.thevideosdb.com/how-thevideosdb-came-to-be/

What motivates you?

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What motivates me? The idea that most employee type jobs are working for unintelligent people who smugly feel they have accomplished something because they based they career around exploiting developers, artists, writers, etc. I've met hundreds of people like this, people who freely admit they planned their entire college experience to get into a management role as soon as possible so they could loaf and be non-contributors. These people are often paid more, get budget control and people's salaries and jobs to control, and yet they have done nothing with their careers. I'm talking about extremely dumb people who reverted back to grade school level behavior after college. They don't DO anything except maneuver violently to capitalize on and take credit for other's successes and hard work. They do this like their life depends on it because it does.

When you read about how there is a developer shortage or that 75% of developers leave the field after some age, it is because they are simply asking this corporate environment full of people who can't find anyone new to exploit. Most people in tech at some point realize that they are being exploited by people that faked their way through the hard technical part of a tech career and find something else to do. There are people out there who truly walked the walk, but they are few. If you are working at a place long term you should ask yourself what the hell you're doing there.

Try just posting the link next time! Text posts are actually buried faster than links.

Is there a way I can post a link and have the headline say Show HN?

Been an entrepreneur since I was a kid, long before I even knew the word existed or what the meaning meant. It wasn't a matter of motivation. Its naturally who I am. Never stopped doing business related stuff and probably never will. Don't need motivation for that.

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