Why Software Engineers Suck at Startups

Many people get into software engineering to build startups, but few succeed. I spent 5 years coding side projects before I could fully support myself from them. This is why I kept failing.

[py_addo]

Feels like he is staring into my soul...

[ankitaaarya]

My instincts tells me that this channel gonna get huge real fast.

[RyanSaplanPT]

“When you build something for yourself you have much intuition for how to design and market the product. This is better than any market research you can do.” Love this

[NFSprostreet]

This is one of the most genuine youtube channels out there.

[dudebroepicgamer]

1.5 months isn't that long. Just release it. I want to play the aquarium game!

[forsanityandreason]

Oh my god! That death stare.... it’s like he’s looking right into my soul..

[TheBlackManMythLegend]

I am not a genius or even a crazy hard worker like you. But my logic is that: the money is in the people. Not the tech. Understand the people, understand why they do or do not do something . Then you build your stuff based on that knowledge. And that's it. Do you think that your addiction to DOTA is a random phenomenon? Nope there are people at Dota or Facebook or Kings (candy crush) who's job is to make people addict, with science. A book "
Hooked" explain that . Good luck you deserve to make it bigger . Peace.

[mileslakewood]

This man will never lose a staring contest. Now that's confidence!

[KyleShankin]

You hit the nail on the head when you said the bit about developers thinking that adding features is productivity.

I also liked what you said about leveraging social media, it's super important. But how do you balance the other hats you have to wear as an individual entrepreneur with building a social media following? It seems like such a big undertaking to create quality content.

Also, as much as I like the idea of building a following, Id rather work on my business than in it, and doing something like a YouTube channel seems like a huge time commitment that requires my own personal time and attention. How do you handle something like that?

[shibakaneki]

more videos like this please. i wanna make my own business but i'm working full time at the same time. so few progress on my projects and i need motivation, seriously

[aweinfinitebliss]

Love that you just keep going. No giving up. Love you.

[angelofechter]

will kwan thank you for being so transparent and honest about yourself it takes so much courage you have my full respect. im not even into coding and entrepenuer i just want to live off photography but still your videos teach so much about how career works. your existence is truely valuable for others.

[gauravshinde]

This guy is probably the most ambitious and motivated person I have ever seen.

[Deepankarsingh]

I love this channel, also I don't think that any other channel that I have came across,
Which have the this look in the eyes like it will kill you, if you don't watch the video completely...
😂😂😂

[DiggOlive]

Yo that livestreaming fishing game sounds fire

[toblog]

Former engineer. This video is fantastic. I would recommend elaborating further or making a follow up video with other examples!

[Chris-ktyq]

100% my story through yours. Hated mobile games, but loved game dev. Start with simple concepts and get use to failure. Failing is upwards in software development. Wish you the best of luck in the business, hope to see you in it someday.

[bantinggamer]

you are so right. i just feel that without a good mentor and a good story most people have to go through this themselves. you have to figure out how not to do something. thanks for the super inspirational video. rock on!

[rckahale]

Your content is really good!
Research materials, example clips, analysis and opinions is all solid gold.

[CarlosHernandez-lbwq]

Cool video and thanks for posting. IMO, another reason why (fellow) software engineers struggle with startups/entrepreneurship is they can't sell. Not to throw darts, but the email pitch you did is a perfect example. An email pitch should be at most 3 lines selling the end result which you did address in the vid, after the fact. Typically developers are introverts and reserved and don't know the value they bring, not to mention outsourced labor is buckling the market. But thanks again for posting, I'm going to watch a few of your other vids in the near future!