https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/0*X5Zz-PxT8087KG2...

It reminds me a study about the perception of beauty among students of arts.

Before they start their studies, their perception of beauty is similar to everyone's.

But as they go through their course, their perception starts to shift. What they see as "beautiful" doesn't match the perception of others.

They learn what "skeuomorphism" is, and suddenly everything must be flat and undifferentiated.

* Step 2: Open source project

* Step 3: Find other streams of revenue (donations, grants, subscriptions, sponsorships)

For a lucrative game, a reasonable value would be 2 to 4 years of earnings.

For example: if the product makes $10K/month:

    $10k × 36 (a mid-range multiple) = $360,000

After its creator raised €100,000 to release it under the GPL, Blender became the leading open-source 3D tool it is today.

And they make enough money from recurring donations, service subscriptions, merchandise, conferences and trainings.

A note to the author -- if you ever considered going open source, you could use the same strategy used by Ton Roosendaal to open source Blender:

In July 2002, Ton launched a campaign called "Free Blender" to raise money (100,000 EUR) directly from the community. To everyone's surprise and delight the campaign reached the goal in only seven short weeks.

In October 2002, Blender was released under the GNU GPL. Roosendaal created the Blender Foundation to manage development, and the project kept growing from there. Today, Blender is one of the most popular 3D creation tools, used by professionals, hobbyists, and even studios.

Being free and open source allowed Blender to power countless creative projects, including the 2025 Oscar-winning film Flow.

This would've been much harder if the tool had stayed behind a paywall.

Example:

    10 PRINT "HELLO ";
    20 GOTO 10

You could then type:

    15 PRINT "WORLD ";

    10 PRINT "HELLO ";
    15 PRINT "WORLD ";
    20 GOTO 10

This is a video about Digital Sovereignty in Europe:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWS8J2Zs7KQ

How Transistors Run Code?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjneAhCy2N4

> Devin spent over a day attempting various approaches and hallucinating features that didn’t exist.

One of the big problems of GenAI is its inability to know what they don't know.

Because of that, they don't ask clarifying questions.

Humans, in the same situation, would spend a lot of time learning before they could be truly productive.

One of the main reasons why companies move from monoliths to microservices is to promote ownership and accountability in large codebases.

In a monolith where everyone owns the code, developers can break each other's code.

With microservices, each team becomes responsible for one part, and (as long as they keep their SLAs) they can't break each other's code.

When something fails it's easier to identify who needs to fix what.

Microservices don't make much sense for small teams if they don't need or don't have the headcount to split responsibilities.

I have been using DuckDuckGo for years, both for searching and browsing. I love the ability to burn the cookies after each session!

But I haven't been able to replace Gmail, Calendar and Maps (which are quite good products IMO).

It's quite ironic that "google" (search) has become one of Google's worst products.