This is so spot on. A lot of people seem to have the mental model of: "hey! i love programming!" dot dot dot (several miles of dots) "hey! i want to be rich!" - "i can program my way to being rich!" No, you can't. You need to design, program, market, and sell, minimally, your way to being rich. Actually, you need to OUTdesign, OUTprogram, OUTmarket, and OUTsell your way to being rich.

I get the feeling a lot of people here have built thing after thing they throw on the scrap heap because after they're done building it, it's like "ah crap, I have to like, MARKET this thing now?"

Maybe I'm just projecting...