Wabi – Personal Software Platform
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#2Cool, how does it work tho?
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#3what is it?
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#4Cool, how does it work tho?
It looks like it doesn’t exist yet and they’re just collecting early leads with this landing page to validate the idea.
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#5I purchased a WABI CD-ROM from Caldera (before they were bad) sometime around 1996.
I guess it's been long enough now that the name can safely be reused.
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#6I like puzzles. Therefore I'll give a shot what this might be: Lovable for apps.
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#7Cool, how does it work tho?
I'm also really interested in this as a concept but I'm really struggling to understand what exactly it is aside from a general philosophy.
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#8I purchased a WABI CD-ROM from Caldera (before they were bad) sometime around 1996. I guess it's been long enough now that the name can safely be reused. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wabi_(software) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCO%E2%80%93Linux_disputes
I definitely thought the same thing (though i only really know Caldera from archive.org, i was 3 in 1996 lol)
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#9> And so, we pick our clothes. Our tunes. Our furniture. But our apps? They're still one-size-fits-all. Made for billions. Not for us.
Weird analogy, my clothes, tunes and furniture are all made for billions, just as the apps I consume and produce. I would love to live in my custom designer flat, eat meals prepped from talented chefs with ingredients of the best quality available, and have a computer system that I truly own.
> When software is oriented around you… It's freed from the incentives that create dark patterns.
Software is and will always be oriented around a system, and not all systems are alike. It's just the interface that needs to be oriented around and serve you. Dark patterns occur when the interface is oriented around business intentions.
> Freed from the ads and unnecessary features that get in the way. And freed from disruptive notifications you can't control.
Yeah, that's... not something another platform can solve? In the age of cloud computing the term abstraction grown to literally mean the distance from interface to hardware, and in my own romantic idea we can get rid of most of these distances once again. Because if we won't, there will only be the choices of subscriptions to control.
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#10what is it?
I suspect an AI app builder.