Comment by x0x0

> just run head-first into development, driven by a nebulous vision that I can't properly explain. Forms.md is the peak of that experience for me haha.

That's not building a business, that's hoping you accidentally stumble into one.

Separately, developer tools are extremely hard to build a business around. You can know that by looking at how few success examples there are.

So, where to start:

1 - decide if you want to build a business (available evidence: you don't. you want to play with tech.)

2 - figure out how business work. For starters: you can't afford to reach out for a $25/mo product. Someone buying for a year only returns $300. You cannot make those economics work. But this is all easily learnable, certainly for anyone smart enough to be a competent engineer. But you have to want to.

2a - for typeform, lots of engineers can build that. We pay to not build, and especially not to operate, that.

3 - very candid interviews w/ one of the founders of tally.so are available discussing how the business works.