One-trick ponies are easy to replace

There's a structural weakness in almost every app built in the last decade and we don't talk about it much because we're all doing it. The app requires our infrastructure to function. The moment we stop paying the server bill, the moment the company gets acquired and wound down, the moment we make a business decision that doesn't work out — the app stops working. Everything the user put into it becomes inaccessible, or gone. We built a generation of software where the app and the company are the