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by mitchdoogle 1881 days ago
Can we have apps for smart people?
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dbtc 1881 days ago
Sure, emacs or CLI?
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tomc1985 1881 days ago
Or 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

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tomc1985 1881 days ago
Yes, why did the world have to stop making apps for power users? Why can't both groups coexist?
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TeMPOraL 1881 days ago
Because 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.

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