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Cord didn't win. What now?

Across the last six months, I’ve been making my way through the practical reality of Cord not working out. I was the co-founder and invested more than 4 years of my life in that company.

And then we’d get to the dev team and face a stonewall of NIH syndrome alongside a clear preference for building it all themselves, even when that meant shipping a vastly less-useful product to their end users. I built our developer documentation system and completely rebuilt our company website… three times (changing things as we learned who we were and weren’t and what our needs actually were). I can’t help but feel that this extreme generality ought to hold the key to starting something small that earns me enough money to have the lifestyle I want for my family… without the sturm und drang of running a “proper” company.

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