So, the new era of the internet is going to be connecting the dots. In this paradigm, the dots are the ecosystems that already exist and have many users.
These ecosystems have had millions of dollars poured into them. They have somewhat of a technical moat now but their user ecosystem widens that moat most of all.
For instance, I have been meaning to get started on N8N for a few weeks now. I’m glad I sat down and made time for it today … this is a brand new software type available to people without having to pay for the upfront development of handling the communication between the dots.
As a starting point I setup a workflow that grabbed my favourite Arsenal FC blog, asked OpenAI to summarise it, and then message me them on slack.
After some fiddling around I got some messages in Slack!
I can’t overemphasise how great this is. This is a huge timesaver, but it’s yet again another threat to programmers.
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