Stop Democratizing FPGAs. The Real Money Doesn’t Care About Your Browser.
WebFPGA promises to make hardware prototyping as easy as opening a browser. But while it scratches the engineer’s itch to tinker, it misses the real market. The bottleneck isn’t tooling—it’s the lack of compelling use cases for cheap boards. The real money isn’t on Kickstarter; it’s in High-Frequency Trading shops desperate for rapid cloud-based PoCs.