"It is now 2025 and React (and its descendants) dominates the way developers build sites and apps." Is there any research which tells react is dominating or most of the internet is not vanilla HTML but react?
1. On one hand, walled gardens like Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, etc, are most of the internet and they decidedly use React (or similar) frameworks. So from that perspective, the statement is sorta trivially true.
2. There may well be a horde of websites that are pure HTML rendering. But, those sites are not largely being developed by developers – they are being generated by platforms (like Squarespace, etc.) so are out of the scope of "sites and apps built by developers"
Just soft launched: http://disposableapps.com - Hugging face for micro-tools. Disposable apps propose few apps a week and the ones with max votes stay and rest gets "disposed off" and the ones which stay are available for flat monthly subscription.
Would love feedback, contributions, or ideas for other templates/features!
Lovable, I feel, works at a higher abstraction layer. The unpredictability of whether my prompt will generate something delightful in that initial design creates an addictive slot machine dynamic. But would these tools lose their magic if the results became completely deterministic?
Companies will rationally stop paying for slot machines that pay out $0.90 for every $1 wagered, but they’ll happily pay for slot machines that pay out $5 for every $1 wagered.
Which will be the case is the interesting question.
At this point I am doubtful about calling companies rational actors in many many cases. So probably they play both machines. And it is somewhat luck which they hit and some maybe have rational leaders.
> But would these tools lose their magic if the results became completely deterministic?
No. They would become extremely useful and more magical. Because instead of weird incantations and shamanic rituals of "just one more .rules file, bro, I swear" you could create useful reproducible working tools.
Except an LLM is not and never will be deterministic, by its very design that is not how it operates. It would need to be a fundamentally different tech from the ground up.
I learn by taking notes, but keeping up with AI developments was becoming challenging. To stay updated, I began a daily blog in April last year to cover various topics and create a repository of notes for future reference.
Initially free, the blog eventually became paid and grew into a very active WhatsApp group of over 700+ members.
This week, something that started as a personal blog is evolving into a product for me.
The blog helped me in many ways:
- Increased learning by actively looking for newer topics and exploring more about them
- After having a few users it put pressure and discipline to blog daily
- Led to many interesting conversations and connections
- Give lots of innovative ideas and a boost of confidence
- There are lots of learning on entrepreneurship as well
I know this feeling. I have gone down similar rabbit hole once too; and it was fun, relaxing and act as a stress buster for me. Thanks for sharing these.
Having grown tired of the design of Alfread and not wanting to commit to VC-backed Raycast, this is a nice discovery! Edit: A plugin system is on the TODO and that'd be the clincher.
