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SOFTWARE'S YOUTUBE MOMENT IS HAPPENING NOW

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YouTube launching in 2005 didn't seem to fill an obvious content gap. Two decades later, it's a $550bn business more culturally relevant than traditional TV. The same long-tail creation wave is happening for software right now. Before LLMs, most apps never got built because the barriers were too high. Now the time from idea to working app has compressed from weeks to hours. The addressable market for builders just expanded dramatically. You don't need to be "interested in software" to build software. You just need to be interested in good ideas.