[HN Gopher] Full Stack Startups (2014)
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       Full Stack Startups (2014)
        
       Author : aquajet
       Score  : 21 points
       Date   : 2022-11-04 20:49 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
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       | aquajet wrote:
       | Does this still hold true after 8 years?
        
         | wbobeirne wrote:
         | Good point, title needs a (2014)
        
           | aquajet wrote:
           | Fixed
        
       | jeffreyrogers wrote:
       | > The media industry is notoriously slow to adopt new
       | technologies
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       | This doesn't seem right, wasn't the film industry one of the
       | first big users of 3d graphics and the computer hardware (e.g.
       | SGI) required to generate them? Plus the music industry has gone
       | through many technological changes both on the production and the
       | distribution side.
        
       | sideproject wrote:
       | The statements made in the article are simplistic. Sure, it may
       | seem fullstack, but there is also a popular mantra "Focus on your
       | strengths, outsource everything else". So, sure you have a
       | marketing person, but now how many SaaS tools are we buying to
       | get the marketing going? You may not be outsourcing the entire
       | marketing, but you are now hiring someone to run the marketing by
       | buying up 5 different SaaS tools. This doesn't completely replace
       | the outsource, but to call it a fullstack sounds overly
       | simplified.
        
       | vm wrote:
       | Reminds me of this quote "There are only two ways to make money
       | in business: One is to bundle; the other is unbundle." - Marc
       | Andreessen / Jim Barksdale
        
         | aquajet wrote:
         | Are there businesses built explicitly on unbundling? I think
         | there are examples of unconscious unbundling (picking the best
         | individual components of a service/stack) but the goal is never
         | to unbundle. Then a business comes along whose sole purpose is
         | to bundle, but with that comes bloat. And then the cycle
         | continues.
        
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