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When you design software for N customers, where N is very small, and you expect to hold each customers' hand individually, the software is basically guaranteed to be hot garbage that doesn't generalize or actually work except in exactly the use cases you supported (there are exceptions to this, but it requires having exceptional software engineers and leaders that care about doing things correctly and not just closing the next ticket, and in my experience, they are extremely rare).

If you design software for N00000 customers, it can't be shit, because you can't hold the hands of that many people, it's just not possible. By intending to design software for a wide variety of users, it forces you to make your software not suck, or you'll drown in support requests that you cannot possibly handle.



Now imagine you don't have the resources to satisfy N00000 customers. What do you do?


Start selling ice creams. :)

Honestly, if they "don't have the resources to satisfy N00000 customers", they better get them. That will teach them in the hard way to work differently.




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