I dont want that though, I want someone to spend much more time than I can afford thinking about and perfecting a product that I can pay for and dont worry about it
The metaphor that’s popped into my head recently is baking bread.
You can learn to bake good bread. It’s not _that_ hard. And it’ll probably taste better than store bought bread.
But it almost certainly won’t be cheaper. And it’ll take a more more time and effort.
Still, sometimes you might bake your own bread for kicks. But most of the time, you’ll just buy the bread someone else has already perfected.
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And some people do, both things can be true. I'd rather make a tool just for me that breaks when I introduce a new requirement and I just add into it and keep going.
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If we could return to one-off payments without dark patterns I would agree. Hopefully at least the software that rely on grift will start to vanish.