The Everything Chart

I'm pretty bad at a lot of things but one thing I've (accidentally or not) have been pretty good at is being early at trends.

I went digital nomad in 2013, then it exploded in 2014 and became mainstream a decade later. Relatedly remote work was very odd in 2015, but I built a job platform around it and then during COVID suddenly everyone was forced to remote work.

I started indie hacking at the same time, when the term didn't even exist yet, and when it was unheard of to build a startup without VC funding. But now a decade later bootstrapping for the most part has become a normal way to build a startup. And 𝕏 is full of tens of thousands of indie hackers trying to make it.

I learned VR development when I thought that VR was becoming viable, but it was still not production-ready and still too much hassle to put on. So that one I was kinda wrong on.

Not so much of a trend but I was relatively early by jumping on AI the moment it started looking viable with the launch of Stable Diffusion 1.5 in mid-2022 scrambling to launch AI startups like Interior AI on top of it within weeks, then Avatar AI, then Photo AI, each the first AI app in their segment (now of course there's thousands). And then shortly I started rapidly investing in AI companies.

Coming back from Asia, and seeing the state Europe was in, but Europeans not being aware of how bad things were getting, I started eu/acc, which just a year later started affecting the EU's agenda (with a lot of help from Patrick at Stripe).

A lot of these trends are in my head in some way and I wanted to visualize those on a chart. So I built another dynamic blog post (on my new vibecoded blog platform that lets me do these kinds of pages) with this chart above. The first disclaimer of course is this is completely subjective and essentially a chart based brain dump. And the second disclaimer is I don't think I'm right, it's just my own beliefs visualized!

I'll keep updating the chart.

You can select different trends on the legend or by clicking on a line, and you can also go fullscreen! Also you can select [x] indexed view which is pretty cool.

Any feedback I'd love to hear on X as usual.