Day 403: ceo vs. coder

sales

inspired by alice’s post on her different selves

the cast:

  • ceo dk: wants to make money from products like browserflow for financial independence and be able to work on whatever he wants
  • coder dk: wants to build cool stuff because it’s fun

ceo dk**:** yo what are you doing

coder dk: listen, i can explain

ceo: i thought we weren’t going to code unless it’s absolutely necessary

coder: yeah, but—

ceo: dude, no. you’ve been hermit coding for 9 months now. we have to start SELLING

coder: but do we really? as long as we’re having fun, what’s the rush?

ceo: how do you even know what you’ve built is useful?

coder: just take a look. this is clearly waaaaay better than any other no-code/low-code solution out there and much easier than writing a puppeteer/playwright/selenium script.

ceo: but what are people going to use it for?

coder: anything! it’s robust enough to automate any workflow on any site you throw at it

ceo: why would anyone pay for this?

coder: because they can automate whatever they want

ceo: but what problem does it solve?

coder: that’s up to them. the best part is that because it’s flexible, they can use it for whatever they’d like

ceo: sigh

coder: what?

ceo: people don’t pay for cool technology. they pay for solutions to their problems.

coder: yeah, but if i design the product in a way where they can solve any problem they run into, then—

ceo: you’re thinking like an engineer. you’re trying to create a scalable, robust solution for problems that you don’t even know exist. you’ve built a hammer assuming that there are a bunch of nails out there.

coder: it’s a really good hammer tho. also i am an engineer

ceo: we need to start solving real problems that people are willing to pay for instead of building features for hypothetical needs

coder: but that sounds like a lot of talking to people

ceo: that’s right

coder: but that means i can’t code in flow state while rocking out to daft punk’s alive 2007

ceo: that’s right

coder: how do i even find people to talk to about automating stuff

ceo: have you heard of linkedin

coder: pls no