We've never had so much power to build software. You can turn an idea into a working app in a day/hour/minute? But there's always a catch: You AI agent can solve it too. So the question is: does anyone actually need what we/you/me're building?

I've been working in product development, open source, and startups for years, and this question has never felt more closer to home.

Every day we see more and more apps, but it's not always clear who the end user is or what problem it's going solving.

We've been working on our data grid library, RevoGrid , for quite a few years now (closer to decade if we count for Open Source part). It's an Excel-like data grid you can put into your app.

Over this time, we've built so many components and tried so many approaches that you could probably build an entire Power BI on top of it.…