software

“It's great to be makers who can ship fast in a space where all the software sucks, because you don't have to be that good to be really, really impressive.”

“Like, I'm avoiding software, building any kind of software, like the plague. Like, I just don't want to touch any software, so this is very much not that.”

“Lifetime value is not static. So that changes. So it's a, just a snapshot. It's also an average, right? And it doesn't account for like upgrades and just a lot of opportunity there that you can have to move that, that number.”

“And then the third, the most important, and probably the most difficult one to find, especially if you're in the software space, but if you can find this one, you're in for pay dirt, is the unknown unsaid problem. And this is the problem that once you explain …”

“Their biggest weaknesses are they don't listen to customers. They don't move fast enough. Usually they don't have the best developers, designers, because they don't want to work there. So their software is usually pretty crappy. There's a lot of politics, and …”

“In software, we have a lot more flexibility than we think we do, whether it's raising prices, taking features away, or just coming up with other solutions.”

“And being able to prescribe how to improve moves you from being a critic to Creation and mastery, right? Being able to actually improve a work of art, or in this case, a piece of software or a website. And this is kind of like ninja level expertise, right? It'…”

“There are only two legitimate reasons to build your own versions of an app, like to vibe code it. One is to save money, And that's only if it's really expensive. Like, let's say something is 10,000 dollars a year, 20 grand a year, and you think you can cut tha…”