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I have recently been approached by a founder who has developed a comprehensive SaaS solution for hospitality venues aimed at enhancing guest experience and improving operational efficiency. I am a consultant in this area.

Despite its advanced features and significant investment (hundreds of thousands of euros spent working with an outsourcing shop), the app has no client base. The founder mistakenly believed that being just one feature away from perfection would make the app universally desirable.

The lack of active users makes traditional acquisition routes challenging: initial outreach to industry vendors showed interest only if there's an existing user base as they can use it to grow their own user base; but interest for the app itself was close to none.

The founder is not willing nor able to invest further in the project and needs to move on.

Given these circumstances, my questions to the HN community are:

1. Does code or tech with no users have intrinsic value? 2. What strategies might work for selling this app's tech stack? 3. Are there alternative avenues or creative ideas for providing my client with a satisfying outcome while minimizing additional costs?

Any advice or shared experiences would be greatly appreciated.

Every time the medias mention location-tracing apps, they say it's a threat to privacy and personal autonomy. I am not a security engineer, but my understanding is that it's entirely possible to build an application that's anonymous (see: https://ncase.me/contact-tracing/) Yet, medias don't relay that. Am I missing something?

Would any one of you could share their experience about the 2015 learn to code bundle, currently on sale for 59USD? It's very cheap, but is the content worth it?

My small company needs to develop a web application to better serve our customer. It is a simple portal with users accounts and a personalized dashboard. The idea is to develop it little by little and integrate more services into it in the near future. My two questions are:

- How do I go about finding the right person/team to work on it and be sure they will follow through?

- What language/platform should I request?

- realistically, what kind of budget should I start with?

I run a small b2b business in Dublin, Ireland, and am looking for a part time sales & marketing manager. How should I go about finding the right person?