That era is mostly over, due to the convergence of everything into smartphones. The 1990s were the peak period for minor electronic junk, powered by round connectors with no standard for voltage, current, polarity, or pin size.
The 1990s brought the Furby, Tickle Me Elmo, and a flood of R/C controlled toys.
I've been about it as "throwaway software." Why bother searching for someone else's mediocre LLM generated software when I can just as easily (and hopefully as cheaply) generate the same thing, but it just works for me
There is a term "javascript framework"<p><a href="https://dayssincelastjavascriptframework.com/" rel="nofollow">https://dayssincelastjavascriptframework.com/</a><p>vibe coding and LLM will only turbocharge this
What about "fast apps" as in apps you build with AI to quickly fill a niche knowing it won't be a long term viable business, but build to just for that moment?
Related to the comments there, one thing I'm quite sure of is that every battery should be user-replaceable. Most should be <i>field</i>-replaceable and of a standardized type, though I realize the form factors of some devices preclude the latter.
This kind of thing is possible because we haven’t come around to recognizing the Earth as a finite, closed system. We’re pretty sure all the junk and pollution and carbon and whatnot goes Somewhere Else.
I mean pump n dump is the economy; be a first mover, guess the peak, cash out.<p>Spend tons of money on analytics to predict what to move on and when to cash out.<p>The term hasn’t been coined but the economy it describes is decades old.