alt Hacker News> Everyone needs to care about the Product
This isn't the first time I hear this, but I always have a bit of trouble with this one. It's one thing to take a step back and think about the actual product and how it'll be used, but I think it's presumptuous to think that software engineers know what makes a product good or not. We don't say "Everyone needs to care about software architecture, even Product", so I'm not sure why we think the flip side of that is true.
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1980phipsi • today at 2:52 PM
At the end of the day, the goal is to make a product that people find useful. How that ends up happening is almost completely irrelevant to the people actually using the product.
If you consider product as a proxy for customer, I think it gets a bit easier to understand. Customers don’t care about architecture (unless you have a technical product where they do actually need to know architecture). They don’t care about many of the details. They just want their problem solved.
For software engineers, our goal isn’t to necessarily know what makes good product or not - but we do need to make sure that what we’re building solves an actual customer problem or need.