You and the other million of devs think the same, that's why the indie dev market is exploding and twitter is full of influencers posting their app revenue..
This is so true, and I'm in fact going through this right now. One of my semi-technical friends followed an online tutorial and created a stock tracker web app, almost entirely using ChatGPT. It is a pretty good achievement (in the context of someone who isn't a programmer and started from scratch), and I'm encouraging him to keep going down this path and developing his skills. He is however convinced that he can launch this app and make millions, and is even considering quitting his job to do it full time. There is zero chance it is going to get any kind of traction, and I keep telling him that, but he is too enamored by all the "influencers" on LinkedIn/X telling him that he is basically a 10x engineer now.
I think we will see a small business "renaissance" of sorts:
- many local small business owners are aging baby boomers, they will be exiting + retiring; that's opportunity to back-fill
- the culture among younger people (millennial and younger) seems to be more focused on employment over entrepreneurship; they seem to prefer the safety of stable employment over taking risk on their own (I have no data backing this, just anecdotal experience...but I think its bc of student loans)
- stable employment with a big company is not so stable anymore, most of human history leans entrepreneurial, big corps are recent phenomenon
Yup, I've been calling this out as the other side of the coin of LLMs for a while now. If dev skill is no longer a barrier to entry and you can spin up an application using chatGPT over the weekend, then so can literally EVERYBODY else on the face of the planet.
You think it was hard competing against 10 other similar apps? Try 1000 or 10,000 competitors.
