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Given that we still have today people crafting leather belt by hand and sell them for a premium, I assume there will always be a niche market for craftmanship-type software.

And only people that really love it will be able to work in that.

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I'm not that hopeful. It does look like we will eventually get code of the quality of a good SWE. Usually that's not the case for craftsmanship-type items... shoes, knives, teapots, etc. I'm a sucker for this kind of objects but I can't see myself care about a handmade iOS app. Most people don't understand what coding entails anyway, whereas everyone has a rough idea that you need to hammer hot metal a lot to make a knife.

Software written by a human may feel more like hand woven cotton than hand made shoes.

It would be interesting to have an iOS app where you're in a discord with the developer and can make feature requests really directly, or say that a font or some UI thing needs changing and get that patched in a week.

Small game dev communities are close to this, but I can't think of other software that's really similar.

There's a discord for worldbuilding software that's like this, though, due to the main dev's health issues and the original architecture being relatively weak, such changes have been very delayed, buy it is picking up again now

Is it LegendKeeper? :D

No, actually, it's Fantasia Archive

This is how LegendKeeper’s Discord is. I interact with my users daily, reply to bug reports and feature requests, and overall shoot the breeze. Been a great way to stay close to the community, and been going on 5 years now. :D

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