[HN Gopher] Full Stack Startups (2014) ___________________________________________________________________ Full Stack Startups (2014) Author : aquajet Score : 21 points Date : 2022-11-04 20:49 UTC (2 hours ago) (HTM) web link (cdixon.org) (TXT) w3m dump (cdixon.org) | 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 | | 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. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-11-04 23:00 UTC)