@jeremywadhams@tenforward.social
2024-06-20 15:32 UTC
@gerbrand@fosstodon.org Oh absolutely, I wouldn't discourage a developer from reimplementing tic-tac-toe or building a blog CMS. And I wouldn't stop someone whose vision of a better mousetrap was 95% conventional thinking, but that 5% novelty is a banger! But it's discouraging how many meetings I've been in that are "competitor X has feature Y, we need a shallow clone of Y bodged into our product immediately!"
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@gerbrand@fosstodon.org 2024-06-21 13:55
@jeremywadhams@tenforward.social one thing I had to learn to the hard way as junior software developer is that there's nothing wrong with programming something that may or may not already exist. Whether cms, lms, user management, caching, webshop, dao or any other kind of functionality
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@gerbrand@fosstodon.org 2024-06-21 13:57
@jeremywadhams@tenforward.social product management through copying features from competitors might not always be the path to success, indeed