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AI tools are shifting the story of indie app creation from needing the skill + time + interest to just needing the time + interest (spending the necessary time
by hombre_fatal 10mo ago
AI tools are shifting the story of indie app creation from needing the skill + time + interest to just needing the time + interest (spending the necessary time workshopping the process with AI).
So the simpler your app is, the less of the moat it has going forward.
Example: It was only a few years ago that I wanted a basic iOS app to remind me to do 100 pushups, 100 situps, etc. every day. I paid $5 for quite a crappy app that got the job done (it was comically slow somehow). I found the developer's twitter and he was one of those "I make money creating and selling 1000 apps" people.
Now making that kind of app is trivial with Claude Code without even launching Xcode. I've build at least five apps so far just for personal use.
So, on the other hand, another definition of "indie software" is on the cusp of explosion.
- tcfhgj 10mo agoCouldn't have used a calendar app
- hombre_fatal 10mo agoI wanted simple per-exercise counters that step +10, and a notification at 5pm if I hadn't finished all of my exercises for the day. The point is that at the time paying $5 was a good trade so I didn't have to dick around with software. But now it's trivial to have an LLM build it to my spec, yet still barely dick around with the software side. A lot of software is like this.