Tool Usability Barriers

i think that's more a tooling problem. Making tech accessible to someone new really important.

I think it's more about barrier of entry and ease of use

Being easy to use by newbies has killed too many great ideas already.

Sure, pretty easy for developers, not for the general user.

I imagine it's been quite difficult to educate users to use this tool?

Thanks for this! One of my frustration with tools nowadays is that they aim to be so "user friendly" that actually make things complicated and thus understanding how something works, which allows one to be more productive with a tool, is hidden under tons of layers of complexity and simplistic "getting started" that can indeed make an amazing looking website with 1 command, but from there on, trying to figure out _how_ that amazing website works and how can I adapt it for my

"Usability" of software/hardware is often the biggest barrier for people looking to learn these kinds of skills. I applaud their effort, I would love to see more development and hacking tools take this approach.

honestly i like seeing tools get simpler like this, makes me wonder though how much of the real value comes from the tech itself vs just making everything less scary for folks who aren't engineers. you think easy interfaces actually help people get better results or just get more folks trying stuff?

I think it was intended to mean that it eschews some advanced/clever functionality in favor of having a shallow learning curve. That doesn't make it the best tool for the job (nor does it prevent it from being so), but it implies that you can get started on solving your problem in thirty seconds rather than having to spend two hours prepping your dev environment and web stack any time you want to make a change.

Perhaps not a solution to complex applications, but for trivial apps what's wrong with hiding a little complexity?Say, by reducing the complexity of a tool that encourages a programmatic mindset you make it easier for new learners to get started who otherwise may have been scared away.I'm not quite sure why you have a bias towards business targeted platforms... most things are these days I suppose!