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.
Actually what I think it means is that we'll create a new open easy to write for web that Google doesn't own. In my piece about this I suggest we should just use the web since it already does what we will ultimately need. There will be too much creativity locked up behind Google's blackmailing, and it has an easy way to escape, we just need to create a new open web. TBL showed us how to do it, we'll just do it again.
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@davew @silverman this is a weird hill to die on
