darenger

Agreed, red bottles it is then :). I know the two have very different business implications, I was just curious what HNs position on the differences were. Thanks.

| Selling software is also a whole lot of work relative to writing software, as you're probably going to discover in short order.

I absolutely agree with this statement. I'm curious, looking at the relative difficulties of selling software vs. selling service (i.e. bandwidth/cpu/storage + features) if I would be better investing my efforts in the latter.

I know it's the bandwagon argument, but I can think of a lot of cool startups offering tools. I can't think of any offering tools offline.

It is targeted at solving business problems, however it would leverage opensource software. I look at github and I am very grateful for what those developers provide.

But it makes one wonder, why would they give this away for free if they could make money? I agree with the altruism and desire to give for the good of other developers, but i feel like you could do that and make a small profit.