All of the "next big thing" trends have fizzled

Tyler might be right.

Each category had a standout winner or two. Then people predicted the dawn of a new age. But the followups were disappointing.

• In VR, Oculus got acquired… and then basically nothing happened?
• "Uber for X" is just Uber/Lyft… and maybe a couple delivery companies?
• The sharing economy is Airbnb… and nobody else?
• Blockchain made some speculators rich… but there are no applications?
• IoT… has somehow just made appliances worse?

Not all trends are like this. PCs, the web, e-commerce, and smartphones all took off immediately and never looked back.

What's like that now?

My winners:

• The creator economy and making content online. Everyone has a YouTube, a Substack, a podcast, a Twitter account, or an OnlyFans (under an anonymous username of course).
• Indie hacking. Everyone with the skills to build something is trying to build something, whether they can raise money or not.
• B2B tech businesses. Zoom, Cloudflare, Stripe, Fiverr, Webflow, Airtable, Notion, are all huge. Boring products selling to tech businesses. Don't bet against the internet.

What else?