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

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I&rsquo;m very curious whether the outcome will significantly change your plans to build product &mdash; and how the differences in policy will change the startup ecosystem.

leytonstone · Accepted Answer

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

spcebar · Answer

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.

gregjor · Answer

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.

JohnFen · Answer

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.