I notice that "true" native-app developers often justify the huge extra complexity and cost
( read "income" ) for native apps, especially when the client ( read "TalkBass" ) must obviously
support native browsers no matter what. Real-life functional advantages for a site like this
app vs. the native browser experience are often very negligible, and sometimes downright worse.
Put TB in the top of your Favorites ( or Bookmark, etc. ) of the browser you use, on any device,
and no more app downloads, potential app security issues, or app-server outages!
TB - Dump the app! ( your NET income on that can't be that good, is it? )
I better stop here - I haven't been excommunicated - yet
Browser support is simple enough to bake in, platform sdk's do most of the heavy lifting.
It's more offloading behavioral primitives onto the device so you don't have to maintain dogfood AI at scale.
We've done it, it's a whole lot of burning Tesla cards in Dell hosts watching who does what before they finally buy something.
Deep user interactions are valuable, mining used gear trends is valuable (certainly has been in automotive), product feedback is valuable, product uptake given artificial stimuli is valuable, etc etc etc etc.
So much can be discovered on a live system that a sql generator tied to a Go based behavior generator can't replicate.
The human animal has always been harder to track, it's something we do in my family, it led me to tech instead of a badge.
I've stopped guys on various app teams from selling data.
Mild industrial espionage has been a thing in other industries, saves a lot of time and $.
Normally I have to lock down volumes and ingress from day 1.
My buddy did the offer system for Audi a couple years ago, you wouldn't believe the chain of multi-person manual override to allow access to just read replicas to feed a new tool. Direct connection to db tiers was more draconian than releasing a guy from Federal prison, it's not going to happen without an on-premise warrant combined with the immediate threat of arrest.
Oh yeah, they cheated emissions globally, no wonder their stack was so insanely tight.
Music as a vertical isn't analytics driven so this is a safe user pool to practice tensorflow lite regressions.
Video gaming literally lives on scraping social comments and using mechanisms to prod the user pool into various directions.
You read the herd, and the next game is setup for how the herd has been reacting.
There is no release into the wild then randomly logging whatever they can find.
That's the reality of why interaction mapping is important.
If you build capability into your device, it's there because there's value to be mined.
A person could really get a lot of growth value out of Talkbass with an eye toward taking the experience to another industry.
Right now is literally when college kids are looking for live systems to work on to start building a portfolio.
