biswajitsharma

Spend more time with Nature (easier said than done)

It is a fable, that certain kind of work changes the world for better. The reality is changing the world is a slow process, it takes a sequence of events which eventually makes things better.

You do not have to work for a large famous company to start making things better. I absolutely believe that if you want to make a big impact in the world, you need to start small - with something closer and around you.

Consider a few things ... (use your imagination) At social level, start small, if you want to make a change to world: 1. Help a Child

2. Teach someone something, may be online.

At personal level:

1. Work on a hobby project, have your own vision for the world.

2. Learn something you would really like to do.

To take things off your current negativity, take a break, may be a vacation, do something you enjoy, Hiking, Music, Books ..whatever is your thing.

Change the Subject to Show HN , might get more attention. Good Luck!

Do not judge your friend, purely based on the "Number of Commits"

Business needs many kind of people.

People who do, people who think, people who get things done.

You mentioned, he is more a Sales and Marketing person - Do you think he is going to be an asset there? Is he the lateral thinker - who is going to turn your story around?

A Business is a combination of many things:

- Market Fitment

- Product Concept & Market Fitment

- Resources (Money, Time)

- Business Development

- Operations

- People

- Ideas

- Hardwork

- Perseverance

- Service & Support

- and 100s of other paramemters

Think, if he is going to be an asset somewhere, where you are not good at (Trust me, no one is good at everything).

Ofcourse, sometimes you have to bite the bullet and let even the best people go, then - do be prepared for the consequences.

Biggest problem in this is, one size does not fit all.

It is hard to compile a stack - which would be useful for most companies.

Yes, there have been attempts made - for Example, Open Stack. But then I feel, there is always an element of specific technology based on the needs of the product being built.

Yes, a lot of people think SaaS = Deployed on Cloud.

But a significant part of sustainable deployment is the Service part, in Software as a Service

I understand, it is much harder for many SaaS companies to provide that 1:1 attention. Specially when the company would like to focus on the Product.

But there are ways to offsetting it, such as System Integrator, Localized Partners etc.

Large enterprise companies have been traditionally doing the same thing, Seibel for example grew like that. SAP, Oracle, is thriving on it.

But my question was also from the companies purchasing the service? What stops them from adopting SaaS in their environment?

You are right, accountability is one valid point, and large companies typically are used to having people on speed dial, when things break.

But then - aren't there questions about - how really agile they really are?

Large operations with a lot of custom software, and license based models and Time & Material based customization - it is always very hard to get things moving faster.

Also, I feel Large Operations have to hire a lot of people - just to manage what vendors are deploying. Very large operational costs.

You bring a valid point.

But then, What stops SaaS providers from Hosting in their own environment?

With Modern day Containerization technologies and orchestration layers, I believe it is not as difficult as it used to be - to be infra agnostic. A lot of large Enterprises are now - investing in their private cloud (AWS, Azure etc.)

IMHO, it is much beyond the Hosting part (which is mostly applicable during the installation stages).

There are questions about, - Accountability in case of failures. - Continuous Support and Customizations - Is there a Dedicated Support team etc. - more ...

Brilliant: Brilliantly Imagined, and Brilliantly captured.