Continuing to think about how to stay competitive when software is abundant. Support and trust are a big part of it. But also there are still things that take a lot of time to build or money to run.

@jasonkratz Yeah, I guess if your product is for nerds there’s always a risk they will make their own thing. But most people don’t want to maintain apps.

@manton you might like parts of the conversations Justin Jackson has with folks on The Panel. He thinks the human support angle is the big differentiator. panelpodcast.com/60

@manton Micro.buck_seventy_five is the sweet spot.

@jasonkratz Thanks, this matches something that @sod has also noticed. Looking into it.

@manton while anyone can ask AI to build anything, I don’t think they will. Same reason people don’t make pizza or don’t build their own furniture. There will always be creators and consumers.
That being said, I love being able to make my own software projects. I graduated from a bit of Python scripting to full blown iOS and macOS development without knowing much about Swift.

@AlexKucera I like the pizza analogy and I agree that will hold for a while. Maybe it’ll be less true as software becomes much, much easier to bake than pizza.