Comment by quickthrower2

I’m not thinking in terms of business here. Look what has happened to iPhone apps. You can get all sorts of great apps for free. Writing an app, no matter how hard it is is no longer enough to be a business. Look at open source: people spending half their lives writing free programming languages. When was the last time someone purchased a compiler?

The tech ideas talked about in the article could help commoditise at the saas level. You’d no longer need an engineering team because the app is designed to work with generic cloud services. The engineering is done by digitalocean or whoever. The software is free or maybe $100 one off license for forms say. Like a desktop application of yore.

It’s a separation of concerns between features and infrastructure. A bit like desktop apps. You don’t need to buy a new computer for each app, so why pay a computers cost in cash every year for form filling or value add file storage or whatever.