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Beautifully put.

Beautifully put. The people who build successful startups are the people who build stuff. There are very important things at a startup (building a product people want, growth), and there are ancillary things (programming language choice, cron job management, team communication, etc). You really don't need to worry about the ancillary things until they become massive problems, and by that point you'll know they are massive problems. Otherwise, spending any time or effort on ancillary things is a waste of time and energy that should have been spent on making your product better. Since you can't really give broad advice about how to build a great product or how to grow that product, most lists of "handy tools" are just tools which solve ancillary problems. Are these interesting tools on the list? Yes. Are some of these tools themselves great products? Yes. But, if you are trying to build a successful startup, this list of tools will serve you almost no benefit.

Posted by birken on Jun 25, 2015, 6:55 PM

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Beautifully put.

birkenJun 25, 2015, 6:55 PM

Beautifully put. The people who build successful startups are the people who build stuff. There are very important things at a startup (building a product people want, growth), and there are ancillary things (programming language choice, cron job management, team communication, etc). You really don't need to worry about the ancillary things until they become massive problems, and by that point you'll know they are massive problems. Otherwise, spending any time or effort on ancillary things is a waste of time and energy that should have been spent on making your product better. Since you can't really give broad advice about how to build a great product or how to grow that product, most lists of "handy tools" are just tools which solve ancillary problems. Are these interesting tools on the list? Yes. Are some of these tools themselves great products? Yes. But, if you are trying to build a successful startup, this list of tools will serve you almost no benefit.

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