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I read this take on hacker news all the time, but what indication do you have that this would be popular ?

All the streaming giants had ample budget and engineering talent to make interactive fiction happen, but didn’t, presumably because they know a) not everybody is creative that way and b) a big part of culture is that you can discuss it with others, which doesn’t work for personalised works.

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If you have your kids you’ll know that the shared culture we used to have is no more. Kids these days don’t turn on the tv when they get home from school but instead go on their highly personalised feeds… so for any shared culture, we’re now back to memes (in the original sense of the word, not internet memes).

You can’t look at the big giants with their budgets and think “If they can’t do it, nobody will”. The bigger you are, the slower you’ll move. This is exactly why FAANGS buy innovation rather than build it all themselves.

I’m 100% positive we’ll see exactly what I described in the coming years and it will be from an unknown startup with two founders, no budget, and just a coffee machine to keep them going

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