that's a separate argument from "it's not useful".
Good, though more of a WordPress alternative. I'd like to see actual substack alternative in the fediverse, with the ability for users to pay authors for their work, via subscription, as substack does.
I know people are worried about monetization in the fediverse but authors need payment for their work. Subscriptions don't have the same perverse incentives as advertising.
Flipboard ceo has mentioned he is supportive of the idea.
The difficult part about making software isn't the code part really. It's actually figuring out what the problem is that needs solving and then marshaling the resources to solve that problem.
People don't need a bespoke habit tracker app. General solution platforms exist. But then the problem becomes maintaining them.
And generally software is considered non capital intensive. It's relatively cheap, you mostly just need to pay for labor unlike building hardware where you have physical logistics and resources to account for.
Eno is more a traditional algorist than "AI" (by which people generally mean neural networks)