247 karma · joined July 5, 2011
I sold a product for business users. I presented myself as an expert in the field and became active in the field. Although the product actually came after the fact as I figured I might as well monetise on my publicity.
My first paying client contacted me days after I posted an open for beta landing page without any marketing.
Edit: after the first few customers, I failed to keep momentum and my business flopped. I folded it a year after.
The benefit of everyone using Qwerty, though, is apparent.
So same with 9am starts. So that the team is together at around the same time, for example. This can be overcome with proper communication channels as in a remote worker setup, but that's a special case.
Sometimes the effects can justify the means.
"On one side, I’ve been working on building products, like the recommender system, Talent Match, modeling and finding ways to empower users to use LinkedIn through their products. Groups You May Like was another product I started.
The other side is finding interesting stories in the data. It’s exciting to be able to tell stories collected from the careers of 120 million professionals, and trying to learn what that data can tell us about the world at large. That has given us stories such as, “top times of year to be promoted,” “overused buzzwords” and “top CEO names.” Industries are ebbing and flowing, and there are a lot of insights about the world at large from people’s profiles when they are combined and aggregated."
As a maturing technology tree branches out, more and more specialists will be born.
Secondly, developers of niche software don't publish their price because they'd be showing their hands to their competitors, which often compete with each other to bid for contracts.