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> I think you underestimate the significance of the small barriers, even ones as small as a search-and-install step. I think you over-estimate that barrier. It
by kllrnohj 6y ago
> I think you underestimate the significance of the small barriers, even ones as small as a search-and-install step.
I think you over-estimate that barrier. It hasn't stopped things like TikTok, Instagram, etc... The modern world is installing apps. It's not a meaningful barrier.
What you're describing with organic evolution into programming is a cool property of things like Excel, yes. But you don't get that by just bundling an IDE into a browser, either. You still have that barrier of the user needs to decide they want to program. Which they don't want to do when they're just browsing reddit or whatever, that's not a natural evolution path like the Excel one.
- brundolf 6y agoI've personally used the browser dev tools in a "consumer" capacity, to: - Filter content feeds by custom criteria - Count the number of items in a list - Tweak a blog post's styling to make it more readable - Automatically click a large number of items at once (instead of manually) - Delete cookie overlays and adblocker-detection overlays Just a few weeks ago a friend asked me how he could go about putting together a little GUI for navigating some D&D rules Not that the average person would necessarily bother to do all of this stuff, but I think there's a larger space of usecases here than you're assuming