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Re: Notion, Trello, etc. — wouldn’t enabling interoperability on top of a presumably-free “open core”, completely commoditize these services? (As, for anything
by derefr 6y ago
Re: Notion, Trello, etc. — wouldn’t enabling interoperability on top of a presumably-free “open core”, completely commoditize these services? (As, for anything they offered on top of their open core, you could instead substitute a third-party service that does the same thing by operating against the service’s API.)
Which is to say — in a world where interoperability is a social norm or legal requirement, how would these services exist? (I would suspect they wouldn’t.) And, without them, would there be any money in advancing the state of the art in these verticals?
It’d be a lot like if there were a legal requirement for every drug to have a generic available from the start. Would there still be an incentive for drug research?
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- TeMPOraL 6y ago> in a world where interoperability is a social norm or legal requirement, how would these services exist? (I would suspect they wouldn’t.) And, without them, would there be any money in advancing the state of the art in these verticals? They would. The verticals wouldn't. A service like Trello is at least two components - a storage layer for lightly connected lists of rich data, and UI for displaying/managing them. In a world where interoperability would be the norm, these two components would be two different markets. The user would be free to choose or buy the UI separately from the storage layer. Most would probably choose a vendor that provides both services, just out of convenience. The main difference would be that all these companies would operate on lower margins, and wouldn't support such insane valuations like our-world tech companies have these days.