{"id":592,"date":"2016-07-20T13:58:12","date_gmt":"2016-07-20T13:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/dollar-shave-club-and-the-disruption-of-everything-2\/"},"modified":"2016-07-20T13:58:12","modified_gmt":"2016-07-20T13:58:12","slug":"dollar-shave-club-and-the-disruption-of-everything-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/dollar-shave-club-and-the-disruption-of-everything-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Dollar Shave Club and the Disruption of Everything | Hacker News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=12127766'>Dollar Shave Club and the Disruption of Everything | Hacker News<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"link_description\">\n<p>\u201cFor the last few years most programmers I know have thought everything has a technical (app-based) solution. But those easy wins are gone now. This is the next trend in tech &#8211; upending existing industries by using tech to drive efficiencies.<\/p>\n<p>Start looking for &ldquo;real stuff\u201d you can improve with tech, rather than just software\/apps that\u2019re hard to defend.\u201c<\/p>\n<p>To that end, I often recommend that developers go and find jobs outside of traditional software businesses for a while. If you spend a few years writing code for a publishing house or an oil company you&rsquo;ll see more of the challenges that affect those businesses that you can apply software to. <\/p>\n<p>If you spend your entire career working in a software company it&rsquo;s unlikely you&rsquo;ll realise that these problems exist because (generally speaking) software companies have already realised they&rsquo;re a problem and addressed them.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dollar Shave Club and the Disruption of Everything | Hacker News \u201cFor the last few years most programmers I know have thought everything has a technical (app-based) solution. But those easy wins are gone now. This is the next trend in tech &#8211; upending existing industries by using tech to drive efficiencies. Start looking for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-link"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}