Multi-user coordination is massively underserved in software today.

· Bits and Bobs 8/3/26
  • Multi-user coordination is massively underserved in software today.
    • The reason is that each silo doesn't know about the other.
    • So each bit of multi-user coordination only works per silo.
    • To have high-fidelity coordination across the m silos that contain your data with n people is just combinatorially too expensive.
    • So you fall back on the smallest number of silos that you know everyone uses.
    • This reduces down to WhatsApp or Google Docs.
      • The lowest common denominator multi-user tools.
    • In enterprise, higher leverage tools can emerge, because there's a schelling point of the tools that the enterprise requires the employees to use.
    • But for consumers, it's hopeless to coordinate on anything other than the lowest common denominator.
    • We are social beings, coordinating in high-fidelity ways should be common and powerful.
    • But we're missing the Silver Swarm of social software, because the physics of trust make it impossible.
    • These are the missing social use cases.
    • You might conclude that they must not be valuable because we don't have them today.
    • But actually we don't have them today because our physics of trust make them too costly.
    • New physics of trust that make them cheap will unlock tons of value that was always sitting there, waiting to be activated.

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