Sands: AI app shoppers currently buy low-to-mid priced items
“That's a big reason why on the consumer side, what we're mostly seeing is people are discovering things inside AI apps, but they're still choosing the exact thing, and they're still disproportionately buying Low to mid price stuff.”
Morin: AI apps are no different than apps built on Linux or iOS
“There's no difference between an app that's built on Linux or an app that's built on iOS. Like these are just apps.”
Bo: Unsexy markets provide high willingness to pay with minimal competition
“In sexy categories, AI apps, social platforms, creator tools, The market might be huge, but you're competing against hundreds of well-funded teams. In unsexy markets, you get the opposite. Real demand, high willingness to pay, and very few people who want to t…”
Swix: Sam Altman's Top AI Wish Is a Self-Completing To-Do List
“Do you know this is Sam Altman's number one ask for an AI app? It's the self-completing to-do list.”
Lemkin: Software Companies Lacking Magical AI Will Be Quickly Disrupted
“Cuz there's really no excuse today and you're gonna be quickly disrupted and churned if you can't build something magical with your AI app today.”
Bundling multiple AI workflows into one app drives daily consumer stickiness
“Most users don't want five different AI apps actually. They want one place to ask questions, generate media, summarize PDFs, Analyze images and search the web. Bundling creates daily usage and stickiness.”
Randle: Bret Taylor is the godfather of AI applications
“You know, more than Brett Taylor, who represents this wave of AI applications. He's like the godfather of AI apps right now.”
Arora: AI Apps Automating Enterprise Workflows Is a Long Time Coming
“When they grow up, they're going to take over more and more of our tasks. And allow the repetitive task to go away so you can apply yourself to new unique problems. But I think there's a long time coming.”
Morin: Free Apple on-device LLMs will enable new class of AI apps
“Apple announced on device Large language models that are available to developers, which means that you can now access a large language model for free on the device, and that will enable a whole new class of AI apps that just weren't possible before because it'…”
Jiang: Self-improvement apps must guide user actions, not just track metrics
“It's the same kind of concept of, like, you know, you have to, like, capture not just the tracking and the numbers part. It's like there's so much more, so many more steps to ultimately getting to you taking an action and then seeing the results of the action.”
Social networks boost AI usage but AI apps gain little from social
“So it's more like the other way where a social network can help you grow usage of an AI app pretty, pretty immensely compared to like an AI app benefiting from a social layer, so far at least.”
Srinivas: Most AI apps struggle with daily retention without native social
“But if you could figure out social for an AI app within the app itself it can definitely make it more daily usage and high retention, which is what most AI apps struggle with today.”
Isenberg: AI app affiliate programs pay 20% to 50% MRR
“And a lot of these programs pay anywhere between 20 to 50% MRR, which is insane.”
Viral apps combine AI functionality with e-commerce distribution tactics
“It kind of takes the intersection of new functionality in terms of applications that can be built as a result of AI crossed with novel distribution tactics, largely pioneered by e-commerce people. And so when you take the two of those together, it creates for …”
Arora: 20 to 30% of employees in most companies use AI apps for work
“I think about 20 to 30% of most companies have employees, the younger side who are using AI apps To try and get their job done faster and easier.”
Postma: 99% of AI apps can be built with no-code tools
“99% of the apps you can build right now with API wrappers with no code tools.”