Products vs Services Debate
The cluster revolves around discussions distinguishing between product companies and service businesses in tech and startups, debating business models, scalability, and whether companies are truly selling tools or services.
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Then companies will make everything a service. You need to make a downside for dearing that.
It means making a service not for consumers but for other services is a bad business nowadays?
You are conflating products with services.
A simple explanation for products using existing tech is be s full service vendor instead of just a few profitable niches. But that would imply them being a real business too, which doesn't seem to be the case.
Ah! So they're selling a service, not a tool.
Your company is likely not considered a core platform service, so your analogy is not relevant.
is your business' core competency building a distributed grep or actually selling useful stuff?
Oh, ok. I thought they meant the "...-as-a-service" kind of startups.
We might. Usually service companies have not led to huge businesses, so you'd need to explain how yours would be the exception.
are there enterprise grade products that don't end up spending a large amount of time providing enterprise services?