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Ask HN: What non-obvious tech/market may take off in the next few years?
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Re: Ask HN: What non-obvious tech/market may take off in the next few years?
#62Augmented Reality. Apple seems poised to release some AR Glasses based on the patents they've been registering and the investment they've made in the ARKit framework. This will probably become another iPhone-like platform for developing apps on, and will likely present opportunities like the early days of the App Store. There's a cool project trending on Github right now showing how magic-like some of the technology…
I think it has been tried unsuccessfully many times. There is even a Silicon Valley episode about it. Certainly it does not fit the "non-obvious" criterion. Apart from gamers, people just don't want it.
Aside from gamers, shopping apps are starting to use AR to preview items in one's own house. I think the IKEA app currently does this for furniture.
This might be somewhat niche area though.
Re: Ask HN: What non-obvious tech/market may take off in the next few years?
#63Web 3/Dweb minus the crypto built on IPFS (or something similar). I believe many developers will soon come to realize that you don't need a blockchain to build most decentralized applications. Products like like Google Docs, social networks, messaging app, etc don't depend on a proof of stake, and we shouldn't be running miners to power such simple operations. All these applications need isa decentralized form of mes…
How is IPFS different from torrent?
Re: Ask HN: What non-obvious tech/market may take off in the next few years?
#64Social media retirement services.
Whole cottage industry of this following AA/NA model called Social Media Anonymous. You could have camps, meetings, therapy, etc
Re: Ask HN: What non-obvious tech/market may take off in the next few years?
#65No code/low code. People here underestimate the work it requires to craft a production CRUD app and keep it working. The problem these tools solve are more related to infrastructure rather than one's ability to code. Learning to code might be the easiest part but deploying it, maintaining it, scaling it, securing it and integrating it with thousands of other services remains a huge task even for experienced folks. It…
As an example, the best and most successful no-code low-code product was and is Excel.
Re: Ask HN: What non-obvious tech/market may take off in the next few years?
#66Personal home servers
Re: Ask HN: What non-obvious tech/market may take off in the next few years?
#67Earlier quoted context omitted.
And "cloud" means someone else's computer, been around forever, used to be called mainframes. Didn't stop it from being a marketing explosion.
In the "cloud" space I think the difference was being able to sell it as a commodity and in as large or small chunks as the client wanted, not the concept itself. Not sure what the equivalent in no/low-code would be.
In my mind, "the cloud" came into existence when it became practical to rent servers (virtual or physical) by the hour, rather than by the month.
It's one of those things where a difference in degree in implementation terms (leasing in smaller time increments) allowed a difference in kind in usage terms (on-demand server allocation over advance provisioning).
Re: Ask HN: What non-obvious tech/market may take off in the next few years?
#68No code/low code. People here underestimate the work it requires to craft a production CRUD app and keep it working. The problem these tools solve are more related to infrastructure rather than one's ability to code. Learning to code might be the easiest part but deploying it, maintaining it, scaling it, securing it and integrating it with thousands of other services remains a huge task even for experienced folks. It…
As an example, the best and most successful no-code low-code product was and is Excel.
Excel is spreadsheet application. It is not related to the parent post, which discusses networked CRUD application, with various integration points, DB, caching, redundant deployments, etc..
Re: Ask HN: What non-obvious tech/market may take off in the next few years?
#69No code/low code. People here underestimate the work it requires to craft a production CRUD app and keep it working. The problem these tools solve are more related to infrastructure rather than one's ability to code. Learning to code might be the easiest part but deploying it, maintaining it, scaling it, securing it and integrating it with thousands of other services remains a huge task even for experienced folks. It…
Kinda like MS Access ? I am only half joking :)
Re: Ask HN: What non-obvious tech/market may take off in the next few years?
#70Earlier quoted context omitted.
In the "cloud" space I think the difference was being able to sell it as a commodity and in as large or small chunks as the client wanted, not the concept itself. Not sure what the equivalent in no/low-code would be.
In my mind, "the cloud" came into existence when it became practical to rent servers (virtual or physical) by the hour, rather than by the month. It's one of those things where a difference in degree in implementation terms (leasing in smaller time increments) allowed a difference in kind in usage terms (on-demand server allocation over advance provisioning).
Isn't that what I wrote? Or do you disagree with something I wrote?