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by khasan222 8 days ago
Idk if I disagree completely but it feels like I do. To elaborate, I don’t think we will see less applications, I think we will see more with better features.

My reasoning is people aren’t happy with many of the titans we have for certain apps, uber is my favorite example. Everyone hates the price it charges thinks it’s unfair, but to go back to a time before uber is unfathomable.

That to me is a ripe market to be overtaken. What it really needs is a taxi driver or operator so fed up with the current system they spend their energy organizing and making their own uber with less greed.

For sure not every tool will become huge, but most of the tools we use nowadays started with someone having a problem, being frustrated with the status quo, and having the will and means to execute.

The means necessary to execute get lower and lower everyday.
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pydry 8 days ago
From what ive seen we see no more features and quality is getting worse.

OP is ascribing magical powers to AI which it does not have. sure, it can replace a shitty poorly coded todo app. but nobody wanted that anyway.

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khasan222 8 days ago
I think people will get way better at wrangling code with ai as time passes
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JackSlateur 8 days ago
Bad example: uber is not a saas at all

It's a network.

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JackSlateur 7 days ago
To give more details

Uber is not a saas, it sell the ability to match drivers with people. You can code an uber-like software easily and you will find that it leads to nowhere: no network => no driver + no consumer = you have nothing

Another kind of business is online bank: are they just software ? Yes, obviously. Are they software-as-a-service ? Obviously not: they sell regulation, integration with financial stuff, government approbation and what-not

Just because a company is used via software-only does not mean that it has a saas

On the other hand, you have companies like tesla, which are far more "software-as-a-service" than online banks

What a funny world

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khasan222 8 days ago
Isn’t it saas that facilitates a network with a specific goal in mind?
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owebmaster 7 days ago
Uber is literally a software as a transport service
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