Comment by pjc50
1 year ago
> The software to kill SaaS and Facebook might be so simple that a couple of people could write it by themselves
Today's version of the HN classic "no wireless, less space than a Nomad, lame" (on the launch of the original iPod)
Except Mastodon already exists.
So did the Nomad.
Look, we know that the software to kill Facebook is indeed so simple that a couple of people could write it by themselves… because Facebook itself was written by Zuckerberg and four friends while at university.
The "software" part of this is not hard. It's everything else that is hard.
Facebook in 2025 is not at all the same software as in 2005. Nor FB the business. The market is also forever changed. Not that this detracts from your main point. The tricky part is not the software.