Kuyda: User-generated software will thrive, but standalone web links won't scale
Eugenia Kuyda · Seeing The Future from AI Companions to Personal Software · Nov 5, 2025 · at 17:06
Eugenia Kuyda, founder and CEO of Wabi, predicts how personal software creation will evolve beyond raw web links to organized platforms.
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“I do believe that we're all going to be building some sort of software and using software that everyone builds, some UGC software, but I definitely don't believe in links that people will share with each other and with me relying on some random person somewhere who's not a professional developer To support the database for the app where I might store some sensitive data, or at least data that I don't want to disappear, even if it's not very sensitive.”
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