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> I'd argue that if you're smart enough to be reading this website...

I would agree that the average IQ (or potential in general) of the HN readers is more than that of the general population, but I disagree there is any minimum threshold here in any capacity that warrant your statement. Many readers here can't code at all, or couldn't learn to well enough to build and market software.

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If you're reading this and can't code (yet), the pressure of delivering something real is an effective way to learn!

You can also accomplish a remarkable breadth of tasks with no/low-code tools, to the point where you don't need to be a software engineer to build an MVP and start charging money to validate.

Take a swing (and keep swinging even after you've struck out - you'll hit something eventually, and it'll feel great)

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I wouldn't say being able to code is a requirement to build and market software these days. You could get decently far just glueing together libs in Js/Py until VC funding.

If you're aiming at 10 clients, you won't get VC funding. If you are aiming at $100k/yr (or even $1M), you won't get VC funding.

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