Kit Rhett AultmanJun 3
Anuj Ahooja

Every tech CEO after they realize the current scope of their product isn't going to yield exponential growth

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Jun 3 at 12:18amPhanpy
Show threadAnuj AhoojaJun 3
Low-key miss the days of single-purpose apps, honestly
Show threadAJ SadauskasJun 3
@quillmatiq Everything old is new again.

I remember back in the late '90s, all the search engines decided they were now web portals.

They cluttered up their front pages with news, sports scores, web directories, links to email and chat rooms and classified ads.

All painfully slow on a 56k modem.

Needless to say, you probably haven't visited Excite or Lycos lately...

Show threadAnuj AhoojaJun 3
@aj This is a great parallel - the clutter of the "everything page"
Show thread2somethingJun 3
@quillmatiq We already have an everything app and it's called the World Wide Web.
Show thread64 Islands Aroha CooperativeJun 3
@quillmatiq there’s more than one way to monetise a cat
Show threadContraquestãoJun 3
@quillmatiq Everything apps are like the highlanders: "There can be only one".
Show threadRichard DegenneJun 3
@cochise @quillmatiq And they both have unwarranted sequels!
Show threadRizaldiJun 3
@quillmatiq the singularity app
Show threadsome random kevinJun 3
@quillmatiq There’s no such thing as exponential growth. Unless you’re #magic.
Show threadKSev 🇳🇴🌻🚲 Jun 3
@quillmatiq This was the CEO of a medical device company I worked for in 1999. Except they’d just launched an “e-commerce site” to sell their medical hardware. Well, he figured why not just sell anything and everything via the site. I guess he was not wrong per se but then he also was not Jeff Bezos.
Show threadPēteris KrišjānisJun 3
@quillmatiq early 2000s are back baby!
Show threadOpen RiskJun 3

@quillmatiq

regular tech CEO's want everything apps.

exceptional tech CEO's want everybody to permanently wear their goggles.

singular tech CEO's want to implant a device on everyone's brain.

Show threadRejZoRJun 3
@quillmatiq Social network app with photo sharing, payment system, online shop and gacha game powered by Ai. That should sell.
Show threadten white women in the suburbsJun 3
@quillmatiq but what do you give the app that has everything next quarter?
Show threadScott M. StolzJun 3
The biggest problem with having an everything app is that people can't figure out what it does.
Show threadmaastoronttiJun 3
@quillmatiq ah, the missed opportunity of platform independent web-based mobile apps.
Show threadMichael LabowiczJun 3
@quillmatiq lol AirBnb
Show threadMBEverdingJun 3
@quillmatiq they say emacs is like an operating system since you can do everything in emacs without leaving it.
Show threadGemma ⭐️🔰🇺🇸 🇵🇭 🎐Jun 3
@quillmatiq I will call it "N".
Show threadNull HypothesisJun 4

@quillmatiq
Almost there… keep thinking…

One day, with a little work, he can become an adult.