GM!
Vibe coding native apps will improve significantly over the next 2 years, and we'll see a lot of competition in the space.
Clearly, the majority will happen on Android which will make the Apple App Store comically small by comparison.
With this fast changing landscape, what do you think Apple will do?
Finally let go and allow alternative marketplaces?
Keep tightening because of "all those dangerous apps" out there?
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We're all excited with autonomous agents, LLMs, MCPs and so on but for high quality products they still need quite some hand holding.
Excluding simple one-off or copycat apps, product design and possibly QA are areas where humans still need to be actively involved.
This human/tech synergy will enable building apps that were unthinkable of before, it will empower the long tail at a large scale.
The total amount of apps globally will explode in number so discovery, curation, distribution will become even more important than today.
Niche apps that are now feasible can be produced by anyone, anywhere around the world, and sats + signed events will be the fuel of this whole system.
Yo zapstriches!
Small update coming next week, hopefully.
Otherwise, *very* busy on a few different low-level building blocks that are dynamite. Can't wait to share with y'all.
Once ready (likely 4-6 more weeks) I will finally be able to start shipping a significant amount of user-facing features that have been in the pipeline.