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maybe people are trying to build a better alternative to arcgis? and to do this, maybe you start with a simple app first? and perhaps these people are also expe
by greenie_beans 3y ago
maybe people are trying to build a better alternative to arcgis? and to do this, maybe you start with a simple app first? and perhaps these people are also experts in gis? crazy to think about
- cyanydeez 3y agooh I agree, I run QGIS and Postgresql with PostGIS. I switched my entire work flow out of ArcGIS in 2016 because ArcGIS Pro was heading to LaLa land with it's online subscription garbage. But, my point is: If you're goin gto compete with ArcGIS, it's going to come from the spokes to the hub, and not from the hub to the spokes. That is, you need a killer app for a very specific work flow and go from there into a ecosystem. Without a "killer app", trying to build a separate hub and market that as-is just won't sell.
- everybodyknows 3y agoCan you point to a few successful worked examples of "spokes-to-hub"?
- cyanydeez 3y agowell, Google was a search engine. Facebook was a college phone book. Electron was propelled by multiple killerapp, initially by GitHub as Atom. it wasn't originally a standalone. ArcGIS was also pretty niche until it gained the user base.