App Store sees 84% surge in new apps as AI coding tools take off
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Re: App Store sees 84% surge in new apps as AI coding tools take off
#2I've been watching the /r/cli and /r/tui subreddits for some time. The amount of vibe coded apps posted there just continues to climb. Some people in the comments for these apps can be quite rude when they read the description and find out its vibe coded. Nevermind how vile some can be when it's not in the announcement but the author lets them know down the line in the comments.
Re: App Store sees 84% surge in new apps as AI coding tools take off
#3We already had a shovelware problem in these stores before AI.
Re: App Store sees 84% surge in new apps as AI coding tools take off
#4While the news may seem inconsequential, many people keep saying "where are all the new apps".
There you go. Your apps are here. Even if 95% go nowhere, some will become 1 person unicorns, perhaps 1 - 3 million ARR companies. If you're wondering if anyone gets rich off AI, it's that 5% of people that couldn't write it before - well they can now with a $20 subscription.
Re: App Store sees 84% surge in new apps as AI coding tools take off
#5Finally! The tsunami of incredibly useful, "AI" coded apps we've been waiting for. This is really good news.
Anybody categorized these apps? I mean, there were literally hundreds of flashlight apps in the Google android store at one point. Are "AI" apps doing variants of one thing, or are they all over the map?
Re: App Store sees 84% surge in new apps as AI coding tools take off
#6I've been watching the /r/cli and /r/tui subreddits for some time. The amount of vibe coded apps posted there just continues to climb. Some people in the comments for these apps can be quite rude when they read the description and find out its vibe coded. Nevermind how vile some can be when it's not in the announcement but the author lets them know down the line in the comments.
To me this is fair. If you vibe code something and try to pass it off as your own work people will be angry about the deception.
Re: App Store sees 84% surge in new apps as AI coding tools take off
#7This just explained the "who's on first" my wife and I went through trying to find the right wood block game. They're all nearly identical, even copying/cloning exact UIs, labels, etc.
Re: App Store sees 84% surge in new apps as AI coding tools take off
#8I've been watching the /r/cli and /r/tui subreddits for some time. The amount of vibe coded apps posted there just continues to climb. Some people in the comments for these apps can be quite rude when they read the description and find out its vibe coded. Nevermind how vile some can be when it's not in the announcement but the author lets them know down the line in the comments.
Are any of them good?
Re: App Store sees 84% surge in new apps as AI coding tools take off
#930% is a surprising metric because just anecdotally my team's PR submissions have jumped by about the same ratio in the same time frame. (No, I'm not measuring it - I just own a downstream piece and have casually observed its higher rate of use).
Re: App Store sees 84% surge in new apps as AI coding tools take off
#10I've been watching the /r/cli and /r/tui subreddits for some time. The amount of vibe coded apps posted there just continues to climb. Some people in the comments for these apps can be quite rude when they read the description and find out its vibe coded. Nevermind how vile some can be when it's not in the announcement but the author lets them know down the line in the comments.
/r/chrome_extensions feels like it's getting close to being 100% LLM generated, extension code, submission descriptions which read like you accidentally went to LinkedIn, and generic LLM replies