The Case for ‘Developer Experience’

Applications no longer need to build an entire stack and compete for the best underlying data. Instead, anyone with an idea for improving the features, services, or interfaces of a use case can plug into the existing ecosystem and its data and start offering their improvement. Builders can build faster, users get more choice, and the Web as a whole... See more

The need for "10x" improvements on products falls away because there's so little switching cost between applications - the underlying data stays the same. Every experience can be constantly improving, with iterations coming from anyone rather than only the original creator or company. The web becomes more composable, with more builders.

Companies are fighting for talent in the same arena where devs are settling for positions that barely align with their ambitions and work-life balance requirements. In an era like this marginal improvements in talent allocation can unlock incredible amounts of economic value. This is not easy to accomplish. The market currently reduces software cre... See more