Ask HN: Isn't anyone worried about this flood of HackerTube-but-for apps?
HN used to be a hub for software experiments and interesting webs, but with the rise of AI, the speed and ease of building them gives a sense of meaninglessness.
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Go to https://news.ycombinator.com/newest and vote some good stuff.
Which tells me that people still highly value a personal connection to anything online. It also tells me that people don't want original content from AI - they want original perspectives on existing content.
It is a little scary as it will likely drown new releases on steam/itch ( I think it already has ). Otoh, good stuff is still good stuff and now there is little to no excuse to not look for something better if what you find fails.
My personal major project for 2027 as a result is proper 'tagging' system that can withstand typical human tendencies and interference. Tall order, but I can already see it will be needed.
I am optimistic, because even if the above fails, I can just keep adding fun little tools for myself and they are exactly what I want them to be without having to align myself to somebody else's idea of what useful is.
If anything, it adds meaning -- but there is a trade-off.
https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/valve-has-a-signifi...
Even if you did it by hand -- the noise would crowd out your work.
Whereas for software, we're down to just a few supermarkets and they have made no effort to stay on top of curation - in fact Google and Apple straight up monetized bad curation with advertising, which inherently favors the "unhealthy" food able to recuperate that money through addiction.
It's not the hackertube apps that are the flood, it's just the general slop flood that is the flood.
Those two Show HNs which you are admonishing were heavily upvoted and occupied the very top of the front page showing that the Hacker News community found them very interesting, and I even favorited them so as to revisit later.
If you don't like it, there's still plenty of Show HNs for you to enjoy and dabble with.
People will always complain.