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Ask HN: How will today's election affect the products you will build next year?

by ricberw on 11/5/24, 12:41 PM with 4 comments

I’m very curious whether the outcome will significantly change your plans to build product — and how the differences in policy will change the startup ecosystem.

  • by leytonstone on 11/5/24, 1:27 PM

    In the sense the external environment can influence business decisions, or even change the nature of a business... maybe. At a strategic level.

    Depends on what you do.

    To determine how much what you do might depend on external factors, there's no harm in doing a PEST analysis [1] once in a while. Perhaps combine it with some other tools, mind tools really that can help spark or focus reflective thinking.

    [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PEST_analysis

  • by spcebar on 11/5/24, 2:04 PM

    Project wise probably little, though I'm sure hiring will be affected by economic conditions set by economic policy. More materially, I'm a less productive coder when I'm filled with anxiety and dread from headlines everyday.

  • by gregjor on 11/5/24, 1:42 PM

    What differences in policy? I haven't heard from either side that sounds like coherent policy, unless "we must win" describes a policy.

    In any case the outcome will almost certainly have no affect on any of my plans.

  • by JohnFen on 11/5/24, 3:10 PM

    Short of some unexpected major disaster resulting from it (such as civil unrest), I don't see how the results of the election would affect my business or product plans.