Books and standup comedy are the rare mediums that are usually created by a single person. Because of this they can be more daring and go to more interesting places than their big budget Hollywood versions. I think single creator/small team apps can be like that too.

i think about this a lot, and how the higher barrier to entry makes it less appealing for students to get into designing digital products

Do you have specific barriers in mind here? In some ways the barriers have never been both lower in some ways and higher in others 🤔

I remember how easy it was to get a simple webpage out in the early 00s. You didn’t need an engineering degree to build and “deploy“ a static page 😂 you’d write a bunch of html and css in a file and ftp it to a server or upload it to geocities. Done 😂

But I also appreciate how many more tools there are for people to learn and try things out, it feels like there’s both more and less gate keeping, at the same time. Schrödinger’s web 🙃

Luckily FTP, HTML, CSS is still a very viable stack - I think the thing was the web was a truly smaller place back then, now discoverability in the noise is the puzzle.

I love the way you phrased it, Nick. That truly is the puzzle 🥺 I get overwhelmed just opening anything (social media, random news platform, etc) in my browser sometimes. Maybe this is why I still enjoy Posts so much, because it feels very “cosy-web”