I really connected to this story because he looks at domain names the same way I do, just not as effective of turning them over into working businesses. I picked up a bunch of domains like weknow.services, weknow.technology, ...systems because they were on sale, and so they just sat there...
At the start of the year, the idea of creating a forum for professionals kept clawing at me, but I couldn't think of a good domain name that wasn't taken. I wanted a .com but I looked at the ones I owned and just went with it weknow.services. A month ago Upwork announced they'd start charging freelancers for "Connects" to send proposals to clients. I started ramping up the campaign as many were asking "Where else can I look" and quickly replied to someone saying I'd been working on this thing, however I was banned from /r/freelance for even citing it.
I'm not banking on the fact that it'll work, but I sincerely hope it does, for my sake and others. It's something that would help me as a freelancer, and I have future plans if things pan out and users find it useful. If anything it's made me realize how hard marketing is.
Since React isn't the only component based framework, I think there are easier ways to manage and reason about a front end. In fact React works well in certain cases, sure. It's just that any philosophies or paradigms that it introduced are in almost every framework now as an addition, see: NgRedux or Infernal.js.
Personally, React wasn't an easy shift coming from an angular background; I just felt the state flow was cumbersome compared to 2 way data-binding; although some people swear by it and say it's the only way. I think the real take away is that there's plenty of options to choose from.
It's not far off to imagine that React may not be the flavor of the year at some point.
https://fsharpforfunandprofit.com/rop/