This kinda reminds me a bit of Retool, a SaaS tool I've used quite extensively since a coworker used it to build analytics and customer service data dashboards. It's great, but their mobile layouts kind of suck, so maybe there's something here.
Maintaining a balance between power users and new users is inherently a struggle. "Low Code" type tools are tough for me in industry as you often quickly find the rough edge that is the critical path for your needs.
I loved HyperCard when I was a kid. It encouraged programming in a visual way. I'm not sure there were that many applications built on it, aside from the games Myst and You Don't Know Jack. Maybe that's good enough?
Slashdot was somewhere between a well curated tech subreddit and Hacker News.
It had its own in-jokes like: This is finally "the year of the Linux Desktop" and Jonathan "CowboyNeal" Pater, the site's moderator who often posted polls and commented.
In the late 2000s, most migrated their Slashdot reflex to Digg - and then eventually the YC-backed Reddit when there was a disastrous rollout of Digg v4 (in 2010)
Reddit then became less of a technology-focused site as it gained popularity, and HN became the defacto "tech news" aggregator with a well rounded comment section that resembled the early days of Slashdot, Digg, and Reddit.
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I wouldn’t say that. JetBrains is incredibly bloated and has significantly less community support.
I’ll agree on Teams being crap though, mostly for how dumb it is that they’ve rewritten it multiple times and created a confusing slate of weird versions like “Teams (work or school)”
Maintaining a balance between power users and new users is inherently a struggle. "Low Code" type tools are tough for me in industry as you often quickly find the rough edge that is the critical path for your needs.
I loved HyperCard when I was a kid. It encouraged programming in a visual way. I'm not sure there were that many applications built on it, aside from the games Myst and You Don't Know Jack. Maybe that's good enough?