Construction is perhaps the world's second oldest profession, so it's easily overlooked. It doesn't help that the TAM is so large it defies computation.
This conference crosses over into real estate but it's all pretty much the same network of entrepreneurs: https://blueprintvegas.com/
Point is, this is not a vacuum. It's just not getting a lot of attention due to the points above.
I believe (and am biased, see profile) that climate and housing crises combined will bring a lot more attention to contech/proptech/climatetech in the coming months and years.
Can you do it on 3rd party apps or do you need raw access to the build files? I ask because we at MightySignal have an API to provide decrypted APK and IPA files that you could use to run Emerge on any app in the stores.
I interviewed Josh for my book, The Parallel Entreprener (on Kindle etc), and can attest that he’s done all this experimentation for the love of the game.
For some of us the glory is not in the exit but rather in the building.
Idea is I'd love to cycle through them, sell whatever's working after a couple years. It takes time to find the right business at the right time so I advocate 'incubating' a project in the background, building SEO, seeing if it catches. It just takes time.
I'm polishing off a book about it now -- http://www.parallelentrepreneurship.com. It incorporates a lot of the wisdom in the comments here. (And I'm taking notes on the stuff I missed.)
That Sidekiq is a one-man business which allows me to exist as a one-man business (by simplifying a critical processing function and being free) is beautifully meta.
Thank you kind sir for sharing your wizardry with us mortals.
Wholeheartedly agree with this. The hardest thing about being a solo founder is the loneliness. In times of joy, in times of grief, it's just you. Sharing your successes and your failures with a group of supportive entrepreneurs as you plod along is the next best thing (or maybe even better) to having a co-founder.
I'm cofounder of Scripted.com and we're probably subledger's first major integration. We did it because we didn't want to put an engineering FTE on dealing with money in our app. Timing was good so we went for it! And I'm glad we did. All told I think we deleted some 9,000 lines of code.
Great team but integration needs some work. I'm sure they'll get there and I'm glad we could be the guinea pigs. Go ahead, AMA!
Small and large VCs are paying more attention.
- https://1984.vc/ - https://www.beatventures.com/ - https://www.metaprop.vc/ - https://www.buildtech.vc/
This conference crosses over into real estate but it's all pretty much the same network of entrepreneurs: https://blueprintvegas.com/
Point is, this is not a vacuum. It's just not getting a lot of attention due to the points above.
I believe (and am biased, see profile) that climate and housing crises combined will bring a lot more attention to contech/proptech/climatetech in the coming months and years.