Re:Ask HN: What non-obvious tech/market may take off in the ...
by muzani on Monday August 24, 2020 @12:55AM
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I feel like this will be like WordPress at best, and Cordova at worst.
WP lets someone with no formal CS training do wonders, and I think it's a good thing.
Cordova tries to save time and cost, but you need people with above average skill to hack things, know all the gotchas and bugs of the no-code system, all the undocumented bits, but still deal with the risks. Nobody wants to do the plumbing, nobody wants to dedicate their career to it, and so it ends up overpriced to the buyer and underpriced to the seller.
You could also end up with something like Parse, which had some of the best handovers from closed into open source, but the stigma of being dropped by a major tech company made people avoid it.
WP lets someone with no formal CS training do wonders, and I think it's a good thing.
Cordova tries to save time and cost, but you need people with above average skill to hack things, know all the gotchas and bugs of the no-code system, all the undocumented bits, but still deal with the risks. Nobody wants to do the plumbing, nobody wants to dedicate their career to it, and so it ends up overpriced to the buyer and underpriced to the seller.
You could also end up with something like Parse, which had some of the best handovers from closed into open source, but the stigma of being dropped by a major tech company made people avoid it.