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I would say that there are a ton of people in the world that love to build things, because its how we came to that point where we are. This is the sole reason why the world around you exists.

Imagine building becomes so easy that it is more of an "amazing" experience for you then a "geeky" long lasting frustration.

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I think the original poster is trying to say that 99% of people aren't builders and don't even get to the point of geeky frustration - and I have to say I agree.

I'm an AR developer and it's been disheartening over the past 12 months to see how little people actually want to do anything other than "like" things. Even posting comments seems to be a big leap for most people.

I can definitely agree with both sides of this argument.

People like things to just work—and people also like to be able to customize things. I could see this concept being used as a superpowered versioned of IFTTT if it gets baked into products. People can tinker with building things, but there are also premade recipes that you can load and use.

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