Internal tools often make bad startup ideas
Just saw YC updated their request for startups page, and they’re asking for startups inspired by internal tools:We would like to see more startups created that are inspired by…homegrown tools, because it’s likely that if it's very useful at one company, it's very useful at others.Although a tool may be valuable for many companies, software engineers — who are often influencers in a purchase decision — are strongly incentivized to build instead of buy. They like building stuff, and even if they d...
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