Yes! 2advanced served as an inspiration. I remember surfing it in awe of what was possible to do.
The quirkiness of the web has been somewhat lost. However, I do wonder whether that is just a factor of its expansion and whether somewhere in the depths it still lurks, waiting to be uncovered.
I've tried evernote as a consumer and couldn't quite figure out where it fits between dropbox and other "cloud" providers such as gDrive and MSOffice 360.
It seems like a smart move to focus on the features that are most useful to their core users instead of trying to be everything to everybody.
I think the key here is that as long as your building something and are enjoying doing it in the process, who cares if its useful. Tinker long enough and you might fall onto something revolutionary.
So the incentive isn't only the app, its also prices. There is a lot of lobbying being done here on the part of Uber and the cab companies have already staged a few demonstrations. Will be interesting to see how this plays out.
The quirkiness of the web has been somewhat lost. However, I do wonder whether that is just a factor of its expansion and whether somewhere in the depths it still lurks, waiting to be uncovered.