A classic question for new platforms: "what is the killer use case."
- A classic question for new platforms: "what is the killer use case."
- I'm not a huge fan of that question: the killer use case of an ecosystem is not any one use case, it's the fact the ecosystem can swarm on innumerable use cases emergently.[ach]
- A frame that gets at that ability: "I'm looking forward to being surprised by the system to do a thing I didn't expect"
- The "killer use case" question is more often a "what is a concrete example of the edge of the wedge that will lead to adoption of this ecosystem," which is at least a reasonable question.
- Use case thinking comes from a world of expensive software.
- "What's the killer use case?"
- The question evaporates in a world of liquid software.
- In liquid software, everyone can have their own personal killer use case.
- Their personal killer use case won't look that compelling to anyone else, because it's hyper specific to them.
- "Here's my killer use case."
- If there were lots of people with that exact same use case, then it would already exist as an app in the platforms of today.