Comment by jppope
1 month ago
Its sooooo weird to me that indie software is the target... the author is interested in replacing things that were always accessible to replace but not really worth it (Typora is still one of my favs) and not at all interested in replacing trash enterprise software.
I see basically no reason why Salesforce can't be taken down by a 2-3 person team right now. Shopify? Everything Intuit? Atlassian (Jira, Confluence)?
The likely hard truth: 90% of software 'itself' will be easily replaceable, especially indie software. The reason why Shopify, Jira, TurboTax, etc are hard to replace is due to most of the HARD work being OUTSIDE software- the legal work for being a payment processor, legal insurance, special client relationships that only salesmen can foster, high market TRUST requirements, legal COMPLIANCE (HIPAA), etc etc. I'm fairly convinced that AI coding is going to force most programmers to move into becoming experts in specific business hard problems.
100% we are definitely heading towards a world where we work on hard problems and novel problems. The days of a team building a dashboard for a year for a crud app are likely behind us