More apps means mean more employees whose job it is to screen apps, and dealing with customer issues. This defies the popular narrative that AI will result in a net loss of jobs.
..assuming that those roles will be performed by humans, that is.
App Store sees 84% surge in new apps as AI coding tools take off
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#22I'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.
Do you have to know Assembler to be able to write code in Java? With the point being that you rarely know the underlying mechanics - and the same if true for vibe coding.
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#23Not one actual app is mentioned. As with most articles that are about this, few if any public facing examples are described. Where are the lists of actual production software that was vibe coded and also successful?
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#25I don't see it as a negative. If even 0.1% of the influx of the new vibe coded apps are useful, that is still a good thing.
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#26While 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.
For your hypothesis to hold, you need to explain how your 1-person unicorn expects to get funded for their app when some guy with a $20 subscription can just as easily churn the same app or better.
Unicorn is indeed an exaggeration but 1-5M ARR doesn't need funding. Most in that range weren't VC funded, as by VC metrics that's considered a failure and they shut down if they can't get past it.
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#27My dad was a software engineer when he was younger, but his skills atrophied over the decades as he worked his way into upper management and spent all of his non work time caring for the family. For the past 8 years or he's had an app idea for something he wants himself on his phone that he's been dying to make, but just didn't have the means to do it. He tried no code/lo code options, but they were just to limited in their API coverage. Finally though in the past 3 months he's been able to fulfill his own personal dream to make that app with an AI driven platform. He has been thrilled and I think he's done a great job developing it. It's an incredibly niche audience and he knows that, but just thought I'd share that for some people out there it's legitimately a dream come true to be able to make and publish an app, while still being clear eyed that it's not going to make you any money.
For those that are curious, it is an alarm app with natures sounds instead of dings and beeps or jingles. As he puts it "none of the other existing apps have good enough sounds or interfaces".
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#28Eventually the cost to develop app and games could drop so low that we will need to shift our mental model in how we discover and use apps.
For example, TikTok revolutionized short form videos by introduced a UI where users can explore a lot more videos more quickly, and the cost of showing a bad video is significantly lower (then clicking on a long YouTube video). This eventually led to algorithmically led discovery and content that was created for that format.
You could easily imagine a TikTok for games, where you can instantly scroll between and start playing games with no installation or frictions. Over time games themselves would be designed for that format, hooking you up from the first second (like a TikTok video).
This would obviously change apps and games fundumenltally, just like TikTok did for videos.
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#29Eventually the cost to develop app and games could drop so low that we will need to shift our mental model in how we discover and use apps. For example, TikTok revolutionized short form videos by introduced a UI where users can explore a lot more videos more quickly, and the cost of showing a bad video is significantly lower (then clicking on a long YouTube video). This eventually led to algorithmically led discovery…
Lots of people have tried this and most recently TikTok is trying to become TikTok for games by showing 0 install games in the feed
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#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Who cares?
I do, and plenty of other people. It's fine if you don't, but people will justifiably let you know how they feel about that :)