Zapier/IFTTT are the IKEA of the web. No code/low code environments where you can build cheap, janky digital furniture that breaks easily and is hard to move, but easy to assemble with an Allen wrench and a bureaucratic instruction manual.https://twitter.com/RealGeneKim/status/1151002534598758401 …
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Consumer web s/w mapped to furniture Beta products: Half-done artisan furniture; carpenter may die before it’s done Paid SaaS: hotel furniture Ad-supported, closed: crates in slum-tents Ad-supported, open: IKEA (w/ IFTTT+Zapier) Managed-hosted: rental Hand-coded: self-built
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This is depressing. Pick 2 of 3 of web software/furniture for your digital life: 1. Affordable 2. Quality 3. Does what YOU want As with any consumer category, the only way to get all 3 is to become a producer to at least some degree. Ikea-level producer ability is minimum.
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IKEA as a metaphor for the last mile C&P is not the best. Its biz model is based on shipping container volume / warehouse space arbitrage rather than C&P. Right?
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Is it? I don't know... still, from a consumer perspective, it's primarily a DIY furniture store
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