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Comment by bob1029 | Hacker News Reader

Damn, you broke into my top-secret consulting role ;)

I completely agree with all of this. There is probably a billion-dollar market out there for rewriting garbage business apps that were developed using the hipster tech flavor of the week.

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Which is more hipster: using the latest modern web framework, or bragging about how you don't use modern web frameworks?

That's definitely something to consider : i don't want beginners to start coding in old school php with sql statement inside html templates because they read on HN to "not use modern frameworks".

BUT, i don't think this "crude design" trend will ever have the same attractiveness to junior developers no matter how much hype it gets here. Being attracted to "new shiny things" is very intrinsic to human behavior, and tech companies will keep spending ads to sell their new tech to the market.

I'm making top dollar remaking failed garbage react native apps to real native native. Clients love it

Out of curiosity, how do you support both iOS and Android with this approach?

With LOTS of money ;)

Secretly leave the Android one React Native since it does a decent job of papering over Android's worst rough spots, despite how often React Native breaks and how LOLWTF its ecosystem and release management is?

How do you identify these apps/clients?

Avoiding the latest mainstream trends is actually a very hipster sentiment.

> hipster tech flavor of the week

I’m not sure ActiveX, ASP, and SQL server were ever hipster. You’d be doing the world a favour by re-writing these apps.

Literally doing a favour: there’s never any budget for it.

The market may be large, but that seems like saying the market for cooks is large. The work required for doing 4 sites is double the work required for doing 2. Unless theres some scaling secret I dont know about.

The idea isn't to capture the entire billion dollar market, but to navigate a market that is large enough to safely feed you and many more for the next decade+, precisely because it isn't scalable (so there won't be any FAANG-or-whatever coming along, eating your lunch)

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