Ask HN: Will Firebase become more or less popular in the future?
The situation right now is that developing websites is very simple. Beginners don’t struggle at all anymore. The reality behind all new people is that they have zero creativity and don’t know what to do about that. Therefore, simple things that get you up and running are of no interest. What will you even create once you are up and running?<p>So things like Firebase will become less popular, and more complicated things will become more popular since that offers more progression (‘at least I’ve learned to do harder and harder things’).<p>There’s a line from Being John Malkovich where the girl he is after tells him the following:<p><i>Maxine : Here&#x27;s the thing: If you ever got me, you wouldn&#x27;t have a clue what to do with me.</i><p>Most of us have no idea what to create with how simple things are.<p>Will a nice service that offers scalability, auth, user management, real time, etc become popular? Nah. No one has any good ideas on what to do with that.<p>Will barebones roll your own static site generators and shit become more popular? Yes, for we don’t know what else to do but keep churning the butter.