Comment by rwmj
1 day ago
AI makes it easier to create something, but that thing is not enterprise software with support contracts and conformance to mandatory regulations and 4 hour bug turnarounds and real people on the end of the phone who understand how it works.
Sometimes I just wonder at how HN has no idea what enterprise software involves.
With this kind of niche sector-specific offering, creating a prototype that works properly for what the industry needs is the main hurdle. The rest is just the same sort of ordinary software engineering work that applies to any FLOSS project already - and we know that FLOSS (with optional 3rd party support covering "enterprise" needs) is quite viable.