When I think of obvious missing tech products, I can’t do most of them, because as soon as the idea gained traction as a product it would be taken over by a big company, partly because users prefer that. So a lot of gaps never get filled.
That’s the lesson from twitter shutting down the clients again. It isn’t just twitter, you as an independent developer, can’t step into any platform vendor’s territory, they will eventually take away your business.
This is how commercialization is achieved in many fields. The chasm of death is most often bridged by capital-rich companies who can scale an idea from demonstrating feasibility to broad accessibility.
This is not necessarily a bad thing. But it will prevent more than a very few becoming the next generation of multi-billionaires. So if accumulating more than a hundred million dollars is your goal, well, you might want to change your goal.
@davew @silverman this is a weird hill to die on