App Store
also referred to as: appstore
13 statements across 10 episodes · 2 bullish · 2 bearish · 10 people on the record · first statement Mar 19, 2023 by Josh Miller · said 48 times in 22 episodes since 2022 · across every show →
Mentions by year
brought up most by Lenny Rachitsky (19), Ebi Atawodi (6), Shishir Mehrotra (5), Sebastian Barrios (5), Nikita Bier (3), Gaurav Misra (3), Mike Krieger (2), Jason Shah (1)
tap a year for its mentions
2026 1 mention in 1 episode
2025 23 mentions in 8 episodes 3 per episode
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- Inside OpenAI: 2026 is the year of agents, AI’s biggest bottleneck, and why compute isn’t the issue
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- Anthropic's CPO on what comes next | Mike Krieger (co-founder of Instagram)
- Why ChatGPT will be the next big growth channel (and how to capitalize on it) | Brian Balfour
- 35 years of product design wisdom from Apple, Disney, Pinterest and beyond | Bob Baxley
- Inside Devin: The AI engineer that's set to write 50% of its company’s code this year | Scott Wu
- Inside monday.com’s transformation: Radical transparency, impact over output, & the path to $1B ARR
- every mention in 2025, scene by scene →
2024 8 mentions in 6 episodes 1 per episode
- How to consistently go viral: Nikita Bier’s playbook for winning at consumer apps
- Identify your bullseye customer in one day | Michael Margolis (UX Research Partner at GV)
- Building product at Stripe: craft, metrics, and customer obsession | Jeff Weinstein (Product lead)
- Pattern Breakers: How to find a breakthrough startup idea | Mike Maples, Jr. (Partner at Floodgate)
- The social radar: Y Combinator’s secret weapon | Jessica Livingston (co-founder of YC, author)
- The surprising truth about what closes deals: Insights from 2.5m sales conversations | Matt Dixon
- every mention in 2024, scene by scene →
2023 9 mentions in 4 episodes 2 per episode
- Crafting a compelling product vision | Ebi Atawodi (YouTube, Netflix, Uber)
- Jason Fried challenges your thinking on fundraising, goals, growth, and more
- Reflections on a movement | Eric Ries (creator of the Lean Startup methodology)
- How to price your product | Naomi Ionita (Menlo Ventures)
- every mention in 2023, scene by scene →
2022 7 mentions in 3 episodes 2 per episode
Everything said about App Store, oldest first
Mar 19, 2023 negative
Miller: Apple and Google disincentivize rich web apps to protect revenues
“Apple, they don't want you making web apps or applications for the web. They want you making them for the Mac and the iPhone so they can tax you when you do it through the app store. And also surprisingly, Google doesn't want you making stuff more native and i…”
Nov 26, 2023
Dec 21, 2023
Idiodi: Every App Store launch must have 25 day-one five-star reviews
“So in every app I have ever put on the App Store, on the day I launched the app in the App Store, they are 25 five-star reviews. I will never launch an app and be like, let's hope Lenny loves it. Let's see who the first person to doubt. On the very first day o…”
Aug 25, 2024 neutral
Bier: Hitting #1 in US App Store can now require 300K daily installs
“It used to be, like, a 100,080 to a 100,000 installs but now you have these companies that are just spending extraordinary amounts on ads and, or injecting it into one of their other apps. So between Threads, Timu, and all these other apps that are kind of spe…”
Aug 25, 2024
Bier: Sarahah reached number one in US App Store despite being in Arabic
“I looked on the app store and the number one app In the United States was an app called Saraha. And it was for sending anonymous messages by adding a link to your Snapchat story. But the thing that was most interesting was the entire app was in Arabic. The num…”
Dec 22, 2024
Salesforce rejected 'App Store' name because focus groups preferred 'AppExchange'
“Launched AppExchange in like, 2005 or 2006, and we didn't call it AppStore because when we tested the AppStore name and focus groups, customers were like, this is not an AppStore, this is an AppExchange, we're all going to exchange apps and capabilities.”
Mar 27, 2025 neutral
Misra: Thousands still use Captions' delisted social network app
“The social network that we had at the time, we actually removed it from the App Store, so it's not available anymore. But till today, there are people, there are thousands of people that are using it, posting on it, and all the different things”
Mar 27, 2025
Gaurav Misra built the initial Captions app in just two days
“Took two days to build. We put it out there and it immediately took off, right? It was absolutely shocking because I built it on a weekend. We put it out there. I call my close founder on Monday and like, it's at the top of the app store. We're getting like, 6…”
Jun 8, 2025 neutral
Jun 8, 2025 neutral
Steve Jobs personally called developers to explain early App Store rejections
“So the executive team at Apple, including Steve were actually calling developers to inform them that their apps were not going to be approved, that they were taken off the off the app store kind of like trying to avoid them going to the press and just like bei…”
Oct 10, 2025 positive
Apr 19, 2026 bullish
Singhal: AI tools will run across all app store software to fix bugs
“There's gonna be like some super skill that's gonna run against every piece of software that's in, in the app store. And it's gonna basically go in and it's gonna fix them all. And then they're gonna get released. They're gonna be like, oh, this sucks. It's ju…”