If anyone wants to avoid wasting their software development career. DO NOT EVER work on developer tools as the product. Developer tools is one of these areas where it doesn't matter how good your product is, no matter how much developers say they like it or how much time it saves them, it's not going to make it. Big tech companies will not allow their employees to use the tool and it will be a commercial failure. It will be a failure no matter what... Ok, unless maybe you can raise a ton of funding from well known VCs who will foist your tool onto various companies they have connections with... But then quality of the tool doesn't really matter at all.
Otherwise, even if it's the best tool ever built for certain use cases, company directors won't have the deep tech knowledge to understand the nuances which make it so useful. As for rank-and file developers who are meant to use the tool; they are more interested in over-engineered, very complex tools which maximize billable hours than in tools which makes them more efficient in their job.
In other words, the only people who could possibly want your product won't understand your pitch and those who can understand your pitch won't like it because it doesn't align with current perverse industry incentives for their roles.
Some developers consciously reject any tool which would make their jobs easier, others reject them due to a subconscious bias in favor of tools which facilitate complexity, disagreements and long meetings.
Otherwise, even if it's the best tool ever built for certain use cases, company directors won't have the deep tech knowledge to understand the nuances which make it so useful. As for rank-and file developers who are meant to use the tool; they are more interested in over-engineered, very complex tools which maximize billable hours than in tools which makes them more efficient in their job.
In other words, the only people who could possibly want your product won't understand your pitch and those who can understand your pitch won't like it because it doesn't align with current perverse industry incentives for their roles.
Some developers consciously reject any tool which would make their jobs easier, others reject them due to a subconscious bias in favor of tools which facilitate complexity, disagreements and long meetings.