The Stack Overflow Collapse: First Casualty of Horizontal Gravity
Stack Overflow monthly questions fell 96% from 108,000 to 3,900. This is the first documented case of horizontal gravity dissolving a vertical software silo.
Stack Overflow monthly questions fell 96% from 108,000 to 3,900. This is the first documented case of horizontal gravity dissolving a vertical software silo.
Chegg's market cap fell from $14.7B to $73M. The education technology company is the most dramatic example of vertical dissolution by horizontal gravity.
Introducing HGI — a composite metric tracking how AI platforms absorb adjacent software verticals, with projections across six industries through 2030.