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Users don't know what they want. There is simply a lack of vision for a human-focused self-service platform with a hook to get ever-expansive services over consumer-grade internet.

Corporate/investor greed is a limiting factor to the design. Network security and hardware/software vulnerabilities are the near impossible barriers to long-term viability. A solution basically needs to be unhackable to compete with cloud.

I have a platform vision that would definitely work, but I have no idea how to solve the greed or security issues. (No, Rust won't solve it! ;)

EDIT: Oh, and nation-state actors and corporate espionage. An independent, successful cloud competitor would be a prime target - they'd be relentless and burn it to the ground. Impossible problems.



> Users don't know what they want.

Users don't know what's possible and without knowing what's possible they can't imagine it well enough to evaluate whether they will want it.


Yep, gotta sneak it into their network under the cloak of some other product and then go, "oh btw, it's like a cloud. Here's our new 2026 features you can buy into." Only then will they realize what is possible and decide they want it.




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