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Brian Shin: Never use AI for consumer app design
“Consumer app is basically a craft. And I use a lot of AI for dev or finance for everything, but for design, we never use AI. And that's because we really believe that design requires taste. And we think that the more opinionated, the better design that could p…”
Brian Shin May 10, 2026 ▶ 5:59 I Built a $20K/Month App in 83 Days
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Shin: ONCE has around 10,000 to 12,000 weekly active users
“So it's been around three months since launching, and our weekly active users is around 10,000 to 12,000 users at the moment.”
Brian Shin May 10, 2026 ▶ 2:11 I Built a $20K/Month App in 83 Days
Disclosure
Shin: ONCE required 10 committed events before writing any code
“Before writing a single line of code, I needed 10 events with an actual date, with an actual commitment that they would like to try using out the product.”
Brian Shin May 10, 2026 ▶ 10:47 I Built a $20K/Month App in 83 Days
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Brian Shin: ONCE's initial MVP was built in under two weeks
“So the first version took around a week or two. It was a web app that kind of just had the core features of what a mobile app intended to have.”
Brian Shin May 10, 2026 ▶ 5:13 I Built a $20K/Month App in 83 Days
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