[blindprogrammer]

The problem with web-based apps is that although they free you from Apple and Google stores, they unfortunately introduce friction that modern users won't tolerate.

Sure, back in the early 2000s, when the majority of internet users were techies, this might have been viable. But now, if you don't have an app, you might as well not exist. As for AI, unless I'm creating the graphics cards themselves, I see AI being in the same boat as apps. OpenAI and Google will add more and more features until they become like Apple.

In the AI gold rush, you want to sell the shovels like Nvidia is doing now. Don't try to be yet another gold prospector by creating another chatbot wrapper that they will outshine in a few months.

[k310]

Conversely, since I notice myself spending time on HN (that does pay handsome information rewards), I am seriously thinking of moving all my note-taking to a new web-based solution, now that I dropped Evernote for laying off its entire U.S. staff.

That way, I can talk myself into closing some tabs and getting back on my personal focus. Low switching cost, or so's the internal conversation.

I like the analogy to the gold rush. Levi Strauss the big winner.