When I got into SAAS, I thought it went like this:
- Build a project you have in your head
- Profit
No one told me about validation, marketing, and sales! And I only figured it out 6 months after coding up my first project, finding 0 users. Why is it so hard to understand the importance of these concepts for programmers? It’s like we insist on only learning them after we fail.
You forgot the part where, mark was in university when he was coding Facebook. He had the directory of users because his friend had student emails.