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by claudiulodro 516 days ago
Hear me out: NOT robotics. The recent things were trendy and had hundreds of startups because a small team could hype something up and generate a life changing amount of money very quickly. It is much more difficult to "get that bag" with a robotics startup, so founders aren't going to gravitate as much towards it (other than ones that are already super rich, but statistically there aren't many of those).

The next trend IMHO will be apps and interfaces for whatever replaces websites over the next 5 years. Whether that's API layers for systems to communicate with each other, "SEO" for chatbots, whatever CMSs will morph into, etc. remains to be seen. Websites (in the 90s/2000s sense of the word) are clearly on the way out, but it's unclear what exactly will replace them.
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ArlenBales 516 days ago
Why do you think websites are on the way out? Do you think everyone is going to download an app from the app store for a website? Like instead of mypersonalsite.com I would have an app in the app store? Or do you envision a web where every site has the exact same structure and aesthetic, like a Finder window in macOS, and only the data is different?

Either scenario seems unlikely to me and I've seen no proof we're trending that way.

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claudiulodro 516 days ago
I don't think websites will literally cease to exist, and web applications aren't going anywhere, but the future is probably closer to:

> a web where every site has the exact same structure and aesthetic, like a Finder window in macOS, and only the data is different?

That "finder window" is Google AI search responses or Google Business listings or Perplexity or Facebook or LinkedIn.

These "websites" are being generated by platforms in real-time. There are billions of people on the internet -- are they mostly going to websites or are they going to platforms, and which direction do you forecast their behavior will trend going forward?

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