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From the vision document: > This fundamentally changes the equations that drive the app economy, turning it from one where a few players build monolithic servi
by JMTQp8lwXL 7y ago
From the vision document:
> This fundamentally changes the equations that drive the app economy, turning it from one where a few players build monolithic services that chase billions of DAUs, to a creator economy where everyone is empowered to use tech to solve their own problems and express themselves creatively.
I question this premise. The internet of today != the internet of 20 years ago. Traffic is primarily driven by progressively fewer and fewer sites.
The problem of an app "surviving" today isn't about the cost of app development. It's blitzscaling. You need light billions of dollars on fire to maintain your position as an Uber. No SWE can quit their FANG job and make that happen anymore, with their own money. They'll need VC Money.
Also, the average user downloads 0 new apps per month. I know I'm definitely the average user. Because all the apps are competing for my attention and send garbage push notifications, I turn off push notifications. As a user, I want less apps, not more.
- rhapsodyv 7y agoA lot of business have your niche or micro localization. It don't become a unicorn, but can make money sufficiently to be a life style business. As some saas are like grocery store. Maybe the author is talking about this type of "local/nich tech business"... No?
- superhu6 7y agoWatched a talk that the CEO gave, and he describes it by analogy to YouTube. Before YouTube, it was difficult and expensive to broadcast video. YouTube made it effortless, and therefore a bunch of people showed up and created all kinds of things... Some are stupid and weird, others are very lucrative for the creators. He says that Koji wants to do the same thing for code/apps/interactive content. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q22bQuiY874 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q22bQuiY874
- JMTQp8lwXL 7y agoThis is a very fair point. Many successful businesses are not multi-billion dollar unicorns. I think the question then is, can an aggregator for software-based lifestyle businesses make Koji itself a billion-dollar platform? I'm curious to see where it will go.
- teucris 7y agoI think you’re on to something when it comes to discovery, but if you have a known audience with a need/want to fill, driving down the cost of development opens up the huge world of situated software [1], where the ROI rebalances itself to enable developers to add niche value again. [1] http://shirky.com/writings/herecomeseverybody/situated_software.html http://shirky.com/writings/herecomeseverybody/situated_softw...