Comment by jongjong
2 years ago
Fear of sunk cost is why I only built developer tools so far. As a developer, I know what tool I need to build software quickly and effectively. But unfortunately just as I finished building my no-code/low-code platform, the dev tool market has become completely monopolized. All developers are focused on a tiny number of tools so now I'm forced to focus on a niche outside industry. Thankfully I can use my own no/low-code platform to build such apps very quickly so that's what I'll do.
The dev tool market has always been completely monopolised. My own career started with Borland, then Microsoft took over. On Apple it was always objective C, and now Swift. Linux will jump every few years, as long as it's free.
In truth developer tools are a tough sell because choices today matter 25 years from now. Plus you are selling to a market of people who mostly expect stuff for free, or write it themselves.
Yes, it's a LOT easier to sell software to pretty much anyone else, so we'll done for identifying that.
And yes, there are some still selling tools to developers, but its a tiny niche, and has been for 20 years.
I just read your thoughts, and hey, I've been there with ozma-io. We're now diving into AI and LLM stuff, and it's super exciting!
We've got this cool no-code AI feature live: https://ozma.io/ai-business-app-builder/
It looks like we are at a new level of no-code programming. Real no-code. What if you try to add AI to your tool?
Could you share the link to what you have built? Would love to take a look..
>developers are focused on a tiny number of tools
Thats marketing. You think the market is saturated but we often see one new product comes and capture the entire market. Sometimes small changes like change of Licensing can swing users away from dominant players.