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Old 04-24-2025, 11:13 AM   #664
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Originally Posted by Shazam View Post
But see... that's not very useful. Oh sure, useful to you. But it's just another contact manager. It has zero value. Like, could you sell it? Like, is someone going to pay $200/mth to create essentially one-off apps?
I think we are potentially within reach of a time when the above bolded part is more important than people realize. I know we're wired to say "but can I sell it?", but there's an interesting shift when the attention turns to creating one-off software solutions for your very strange unique-to-you problems.

I have a buddy that was starting up a small business, and when it came time to pick a CRM to manage his future clients, he just sorta made one. It's not a world-beater, and it's easily dwarfed by options readily available, but he didn't need anything robust. He needed to collect names, contact info, and notes.

This was not completely necessary (more of a test to see if he could), but it was such an easy win, he started creating all sorts of one-off solutions for weird problems he was running into.

I don't think anybody is replacing dropbox anytime soon with some weird hacky vibe-coded thing, but for those "why can't we just get a dashboard that shows me <thing>" problems, it's getting frightfully straightforward.
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