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Re:Launch HN: Stacker (YC S20) – Create Apps from Airtable o... by browsergap on Tuesday August 04, 2020 @01:45AM (#24047015)
Thinking about this more, I think we need less expressive tools with less freedom.

Freedom = more ways it can fuck up. Which is more scary.

We don't need "easy to use". Easy to use just means "easy to make a big mess."

It probably needs to be hard to fuck up, less magic, not too expressive, but targeted on the problem. Constrain people, and they will still find a way.

I think making things easy to use has been over-hyped by idiot founders and investors who don't get the customers they pretend to understand. But yeah, reject me from YC 9 times, and don't fund my work...I guess being an indie dev/maker is more my style. Who wants to have an investor boss anyway?

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Re:Launch HN: Stacker (YC S20) – Create Apps from Airtable o... by sitkack on Tuesday August 04, 2020 @08:35AM (#24049294)
You are asking for higher level abstractions and I agree with you. The application development paradigm has been stuck for awhile, it transcend where we are currently at. I don't have an answer.
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