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“And when I've seen manufacturing lines at big companies of 20, 30, 40 developers, and they want to quantify stuff like lines of code written, bugs fixed, that's when you go down this line of A, building crappy software, and B, all your good developers are goin…”

“Not that there's never a reason, you know, I mean, you can have code that is so bad that you can't add features and it takes you a month to do a days worth of work or whatever. Of course that happens, but it's a lot less frequent than I think developers tend t…”

“And I don't think most developers have this, the product skill. It's a totally different skill set. You know, writing code and architecting and building a feature is a skill set and scaling and all that stuff is a skill set.”

“I mean, and that's the, probably the most common mistake that I see with early founders is, especially developers and designers who think that the product is everything, where in fact it's like, 25% of the things, and really all the other things, the marketing…”

“I know that when we've tried to have developers record a 62nd video of just like, tell us, and like, we'll get very few applicants because developers don't want to. Other roles like sales, customer success, people who are more used to being on camera, don't ha…”

“Classically the most challenging thing for developers is breaking out of the assumption that the hardest part is writing the code that truly the easiest part is writing the code.”

“The reality is, is most of the people making these technology decisions are developers, and developers don't care about the licensing, as long as it allows them to do what they want to do.”

“I don't believe AI is going to take a bunch of developer jobs. I think this is the rising tide that raises all the boats. Unless you're a real developer, and you don't, or you resist AI, or you don't want to use it becomes this tool of augmentation that I thin…”

“The worst thing you can do, and the thing I see non-technical founders make over and over, is hiring developers to build stuff, and they don't know how to hire developers, because they're not technical, and the code is crap, and then it's not scalable anyways,…”

“The thing is, is most developers don't know how to build products, they know how to write code.”

“This is a, I think, a lesson that a lot of developers screw up, is they don't want to build an MVP with Limited functionality. Or they don't want to focus the thing down thinking they didn't solve a big enough problem.”

“And I realized, oh, no one's gonna just come and tell me when there's a grievance, or when they feel bad. They don't, they're not gonna initiate. There's a lot, especially, you know, introverted developers don't wanna rock the boat, don't wanna whatever, for w…”

“Developers, generally speaking, they aren't in the mindset that they go and they license, like they pay for a Ruby gem and license that. That's not their workflow. Their workflow is they want an open source package, and then maybe you can upcharge them for sup…”

“What I've noticed is I haven't seen anyone, at least in kind of the SaaS space, fire people or lay them off because, oh, we're suddenly so much more efficient. I've just seen them move faster.”

“We spent a first year, before we were, we hooked up with TinySeed, we spent a year trying to sell this as a Ruby gem to developers. But they're a hard market to sell to.”

“And I think the biggest problem that developers, especially in makers and builders do is they either don't know or they kid themselves. They convince themselves that the bottleneck is actually the product and features because it's so fun. It's the fun part, yo…”

“So first we started looking for developers who wanted to write and not for writers who knew a bit how to code. So with that in mind, we're able to have writers who were really in terms of Technology, like technologically very top notch, you know, they knew eve…”

“Developers don't have money to buy products at a company. I mean, maybe some do, but at an enterprise, it's not the developer that makes a purchasing decision.”

“The first part developers do over and over and over and over and I say, I don't know, maybe 49 out of 50 times it just doesn't work. They're not very good. Zero to one marketing is really, is also really hard, you know, and it often takes founder activation en…”

“I find that the people who have only written code, have never worked on a team, have never had to get into a code base that they've never seen before. It's like they're code blind, and they've only experienced the way they do it, and they have these really str…”

“If you give a developer who's not a product person a feature, and you say, build content snippets that people can insert into their emails, you know, if your app sends emails for people, they will build it very literally, and it will not be very elegant nor in…”