> Apologies if it came off as arrogance, that was not what I was going for.
No need to apologize, just wanted to make you aware of how it came off to me.
> my point was not necessarily “I know better”, but that it is incredibly difficult to get a broad view of the market from a single perspective. This market is by definition a chain of steps with parties that may be antagonistic. It is atypical in that way
Maybe? That description sounds like it could probably be applied to any highly fragmented vertical though...
> imo the business is intrinsically relatively ill suited for in-house dev considering the high degree of collab with other parties.
I think this hits a reasonable point — if most of the development is related to internal operations, it could be a different calculus than if it is mostly related to interchange with other parties, which implies knowing enough about their business to make sense to them.
Then again, if all you have to interchange with other parties is a choice of third-rate bottom-of-the-barrel software providers anyways, I think it can still be reasonable to switch to in-house dev.
No need to apologize, just wanted to make you aware of how it came off to me.
> my point was not necessarily “I know better”, but that it is incredibly difficult to get a broad view of the market from a single perspective. This market is by definition a chain of steps with parties that may be antagonistic. It is atypical in that way
Maybe? That description sounds like it could probably be applied to any highly fragmented vertical though...
> imo the business is intrinsically relatively ill suited for in-house dev considering the high degree of collab with other parties.
I think this hits a reasonable point — if most of the development is related to internal operations, it could be a different calculus than if it is mostly related to interchange with other parties, which implies knowing enough about their business to make sense to them.
Then again, if all you have to interchange with other parties is a choice of third-rate bottom-of-the-barrel software providers anyways, I think it can still be reasonable to switch to in-house dev.