Wabi – Personal Software Platform

https://wabi.ai/

by mharju • 9 months ago

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sebast_bake• 9 months ago

Cool, how does it work tho?

gregolo• 9 months ago

It looks like it doesn’t exist yet and they’re just collecting early leads with this landing page to validate the idea.

mathieudombrock• 9 months ago

I'm also really interested in this as a concept but I'm really struggling to understand what exactly it is aside from a general philosophy.

grougnax• 9 months ago

what is it?

poisonborz• 9 months ago

I suspect an AI app builder.

anonymousiam• 9 months ago

I purchased a WABI CD-ROM from Caldera (before they were bad) sometime around 1996. I guess it's been long enough now that the name can safely be reused.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wabi_(software)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCO%E2%80%93Linux_disputes

queenkjuul• 9 months ago

I definitely thought the same thing (though i only really know Caldera from archive.org, i was 3 in 1996 lol)

mfld• 9 months ago

I like puzzles. Therefore I'll give a shot what this might be: Lovable for apps.

whilenot-dev• 9 months ago

And so, we pick our clothes. Our tunes. Our furniture. But our apps? They're still one-size-fits-all. Made for billions. Not for us.

Weird analogy, my clothes, tunes and furniture are all made for billions, just as the apps I consume and produce. I would love to live in my custom designer flat, eat meals prepped from talented chefs with ingredients of the best quality available, and have a computer system that I truly own.

When software is oriented around you… It's freed from the incentives that create dark patterns.

Software is and will always be oriented around a system, and not all systems are alike. It's just the interface that needs to be oriented around and serve you. Dark patterns occur when the interface is oriented around business intentions.

Freed from the ads and unnecessary features that get in the way. And freed from disruptive notifications you can't control.

Yeah, that's... not something another platform can solve? In the age of cloud computing the term abstraction grown to literally mean the distance from interface to hardware, and in my own romantic idea we can get rid of most of these distances once again. Because if we won't, there will only be the choices of subscriptions to control.

tao_oat• 9 months ago

neat landing page but i don't see how their distribution model would be fundamentally different from / independent of the app stores.

glimshe• 9 months ago

Can it also generate personalized YouTube videos teaching us how to use our personalized software?

Wabi – Personal Software Platform

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