Automation eliminates value but not risk: Difference between revisions

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Proprietors of contract assembly tools, take note. The value is in ''what'' you assemble, not ''[[Secret sauce|how]]'' or ''with [[Boilerplate|what]]''. Neither “how” in the sense of your precious inviolate [[boilerplate]], or “how” in the sense of the “ingenious” application that you, and a [[Java coder from Bucharest you found on UpWork|Java coder from Bucharest you found on ''UpWork'']] threw together over a mad weekend six months ago. You know how your software contraption was quite easy, in the scheme of things, to make? How it only cost you five thousand Romanian Leu? This should be your clue to understanding that ''this is no impregnable hillfort from which to launch your megacorn''.  
Proprietors of contract assembly tools, take note. The value is in ''what'' you assemble, not ''[[Secret sauce|how]]'' or ''with [[Boilerplate|what]]''. Neither “how” in the sense of your precious inviolate [[boilerplate]], or “how” in the sense of the “ingenious” application that you, and a [[Bulgarian freelance coder|Java coder from Bucharest you found on ''UpWork'']] threw together over a mad weekend six months ago. You know how your software contraption was quite easy, in the scheme of things, to make? How it only cost you five thousand Romanian Leu? This should be your clue to understanding that ''this is no impregnable hillfort from which to launch your megacorn''.  


The ''what'' comes not from your friend’s elegant runes of JavaScript, nor from your cheeky user interface, but from your customer’s unique use-case. If you can explain what justifies your monetising ''that'', do write in and let us know.
The ''what'' comes not from your friend’s elegant runes of JavaScript, nor from your cheeky user interface, but from your customer’s unique use-case. If you can explain what justifies your monetising ''that'', do write in and let us know.