# Produit

> This was surprising because it seems so clearly against our own interest. In almost every case, companies fail because they build the wrong thing. Unless your customers are themselves engineers, I’m the wrong person to help with that. You want someone comfortable at the periphery of your system, who wants to learn about the competitive landscape, who wants to talk to customers. You want a product engineer.

> trapped in the technologist factory (cache)

C’est un long cheminement personnel pour arriver à cette conclusion. Le mien a duré de très longues années et d’une certaine manière je continue de l’arpenter. Se rappeler quotidiennement que le produit que je développe n’est pas égoïstement pour moi — ou ma propre acquisition de connaissances — mais au service d’autres personnes. Cette démarche requiert un certain niveau de prise de conscience puis d’empathie pour espérer faire un produit utilisable et utilisé.

Et pendant ce temps là :

> I choose requests from this list based on my current mood and what I would like to implement next. There is no secret sauce behind it. It’s all about building what people want.

> The story of a unicorn solo founder making $500,000 ARR (cache)