Low-code builders should stop making generic clones like Airbnb replicas and go weird instead. As basic app-building becomes commonplace, differentiation matters more. Bizarre projects using augmented reality or locally-hosted language models attract customers who want novel solutions, even if peers think you're strange.
How weird can your low-code project be? I find that there's a lot of training out there that's taking away table stakes stuff and people learn how to do the table stakes stuff. But as that happens, the marginal value isn't just there anymore because it's now table stakes, right? The ability to create an app, you want to go create an Airbnb clone? Sure, you can create an Airbnb clone, but what's going to be the special thing about it? Where is it going to be weird? How can you bring in a weird technology like augmented reality, local, local large language models, something else that's going to be truly bizarre that is, or bizarre to our technologists that would be really cool for you? How are you going to deliver value to your customers that's going to be unique to the way the customers understand things and not the way that like the market, right? This might not make you popular among other builders, but will make you very popular with your customers and with your future customers who have the ambition to be doing new, weird, ambitious, weird stuff.
