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Pratham
@Prathkum
I talk about web, AI, API, and social • Building experiences at @APILayer • Prev @Rapid_API @HyperspaceAI
New Delhi, India Katılım Nisan 2017
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🙀 "Is ready for launch?" needs 2 more upvotes to make it to the Monthly Top 3 on Uneed․best
Still holding the #1 position for today.
Thanks for all your support, guys!

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2005 to 2020 was the best time for software.
A lot of the genuinely hard problems were solved during that period. Things like Android, Git, AWS became a foundational layer that unlocked entirely new ways of building.
After 2022, something has shifted. It's not that we ran out of important problems to solve, but the cost of building software has dropped so dramatically that the natural filtering mechanisms have weakened. When it was hard to build, we were forced to think carefully about what was worth building. Now that it's easy, we often skip that step.
The result is software bloat. And when something becomes bloated, we start assuming it is no longer useful. You can see this in the real world too. When a product becomes overloaded with features, people begin to look for simpler alternatives, even if the core problem is still valid. This is partly why we are seeing so many conversations around ideas like AI is eating software or traditional SaaS is dead. In many cases, it is not the problem that disappeared, it is the experience that degraded.
In the next 5 years, this likely compounds. We will keep producing more software, but the gap between what is possible and what is actually useful will widen. Systems may become harder to reason about, even for the people building them, and products may grow in surface area without growing in depth.
In a world where building is cheap, deciding what not to build becomes the defining skill. We do not necessarily need more software. We need better judgment about the software we choose to build.
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5 cool sites for web developers.
plandex.ai - Open source AI coding agent
proofswap.me - Exchange social proof instantly
sevalla.com - Full-stack hosting (JavaScript, PHP, Python...)
openalternative.co - open source alternatives
usebruno.com - The Git-native API client
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@csaba_kissi @tomzur Hope you had a great time there! Plan a trip to India next 😉
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I've been to Budapest for 3 days.
Had a great launch with @tomzur.
We talked about Kinsta, Sevalla, business in general, and politics.
It was again proven that a business idea can come from users' demand.
And the bonus... One photo from the big automotive event.
What do you think about this beast?

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