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Can we have apps for smart people?
by mitchdoogle 5y ago
Can we have apps for smart people?
- tomc1985 5y agoYes, why did the world have to stop making apps for power users? Why can't both groups coexist?
- TeMPOraL 5y agoBecause the lifecycle of a modern startup is: - Deliver a minimum viable product, maximally optimized for signups ("growth") - Work on it until you can brag about a nice, consistent, exponential growth curve - If you haven't run out of money and burned by this point, you get acquired and win the startup lottery - The product gets shut down There's no place in this lifecycle to develop a product to its full potential.
- dbtc 5y agoSure, emacs or CLI?
- tomc1985 5y agoOr Blender, or the GIMP, or FLStudio, or AutoCAD, or Visual Studio, or Lightroom (Classic), or Filezilla, or Photoshop, or or or or... And while you might think that the above obviates my argument, when was the last time something new came out? All the best software we have nowadays is old, designed before current standards