In the early 2000’s, you could throw up a calculator. A todo list. A forum. An affiliate marketing page (a blog). A favicon generator. An image combiner. A love calculator. A timer. Etc…Now a days, the kinds of product required to be “minimally viable” is beyond what an average developer can program by themselves, in a reasonable amount of time.

There are some niche cases, but just think about it. What are you going to build, that doesn’t already exist, and how are you going to market it, make people pay for it, afford it yourself, and offer a seamless experience? We have every social media site. Every video streaming site. Every audio streaming site. There isn’t a single tool I personally use, that I can’t just google, and find 20 companies offering it with a generous free-tier.

It’s kind of like comparing the person who invented the fork, to the person who invented the air fryer. in 2023, you can’t just bend some sharp metal, an make a MVP. Shit’s gotten harder, and harder, and harder.

I thought that by focusing on a niche and taking dedicated actions, I thought that it’s possible but after reading this, I reflected on how many such cases I have actually seen and now I’m a bit insecure. wonder how you guys are thinking.

  • Nuocho@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    When I started doing web apps in 2013 everyone was complaining that all the easy to make million dollar apps like flashlights and fart pillows are already created.

    Now it seems everyone is complaining that all the SaaS and CRUD is done (which isn’t true but we can imagine that it is)

    I guess in 10 years everyone will see posts about how every single simple AI tool is already made.

    Move with the times. You have 1000 different ways you can integrate AI to a web app and provide value to a customer. The hard part has always been figuring out what and how. I also see new very basic CRUD SaaS apps pop up constantly. You can always improve on existing solutions or target a different group.