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		Aperocky on July 10, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The magic of small engineering teams > selling to developers is really hard. Yes, software wise, we either take open source stuff or write our own stuff. There are just very little in between that can be monetized.. unless it bundles with hardware like ChatGPT.

Terr_ on July 10, 2024 [–]

Cynical take: Selling software to developers is hard partly because the customer is more likely to notice when the product functionality (as opposed to marketing) doesn't really do what they need.

iddan on July 10, 2024 | [–]

From my experience: that is not the problem selling to developers

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