MicroISV considered harmful?
I was wondering Today, whether the MicroISV model of developing software is a good thing for the Software market sector, or the contrary - after all, when solving A Problem can take one person few months, and they can charge Little Money for it - that means, that other people/companies lose the opportunity to solve the same problem in a similar way - and charge more.
I think this might result in a canibalisation of the sector to some extent.
While it's obviously a perfect business model for independent specialists, the bigger picture of software industry might suffer from little, but disruptive startups aiming to solve small problems accurately. The microISV can agree to smaller revenue stream (and that leads to smaller prices) than a "proper" company, so that could mean a shift from office-based collaboration to online-placed collaboration.
What I'm not sure about is:
Is there a constant set of problems for software to solve?
Or maybe the requirements for software evolve every other day, and new problems and needs of people in the market are created?
I hope that's the latter.
Anyway, keep your eyes open for the software industrialisation trend and small, but disruptive competitors from the microISV field.