alt Hacker NewsI think I should have replied as a totally separate comment. This is my mistake.
It is nice that the author shared the results of his exercise / experiment. Just got sad as I was reminded (when the 100 USD were mentioned) that all this game is 90%+ about money and hardware rather than skills.
That being said I really like the initiative of the author.
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it's skills first and then money and hardware for scale
A more skilled person that understands all the underlying steps will always be more efficient in scaling up due to knowing where to allocate more.
basically... you always need the skills and the money is the fine tuning.
That is true for many kinds of software where you need a big amount of resources. No matter how skilled I am, I cannot build Facebook, Google, Photoshop alone. But a tiny version of it just to learn? Why not!
I understand the emotional aspect of feeling like it’s out of reach for you.
Thing is, if you focus on your own skill development and apply it at even a small scale, very few people do that. Then you go for a job and guess what, the company has resources you can leverage. Then you do that, and ultimately you could be in a position to have the credibility to raise your own capital.
Play the long game and do what you can do now.