alt Hacker NewsThe dirty secret is there's a lot of people employed to do things that are not "products that matter" according to your definition.
The dirty secret is there's a lot of people employed to do things that are not "products that matter" according to your definition.
Yes, including myself in the past. I’m grateful to be out of that situation.
Probably a vast majority of software written never actually gets interacted with by a user. A vast majority of VC-funded software probably never gets interacted with by a user.
Feels pretty great to work on a product that actually has a user, and that user isn’t actually the product (and that user isn’t being manipulated or exploited). Tiny, tiny minority of the software industry I work in.