mobile app

“Really smart strategy is to rebuild traditional products with AI as your unfair advantage. Hiding the complexity behind familiar interfaces. I was actually thinking about mobile apps when I wrote this. Basically, just look at proven apps that have no AI, Make …”

“The next wave of a hundred million dollar a year apps will start mobile first with AI baked in from day one.”

“There are people today that are building this type of scale mobile apps, millions of dollars a year of revenue that have very little experience, but know how to create products that are niche enough that resonate with people and that hit the right marketing ch…”

“I actually think that clipping, 97% of it is, like, complete waste of money but some of them are seeing success around clipping.”

“The monthly MRR, you know, because they're software businesses and there's not much cost, your gross margin is going to be 80 to 90% before Apple takes their cut.”

“I'm actually seeing seven days to be a little more effective.”

“You want to look at high frequency daily use case, not weekly. You know, if you're seeing weekly use cases or monthly use cases, kill it.”

“And then you basically have maximum, 60 seconds in onboarding. And it's important to create value first. When you look at some of the, you know, some of these apps that, you know, have a lot of virality to them, they basically have, you know, just a 60, you kn…”

“It's one of those things that it's a signal that this is a high quality app when the developers invested in a lock screen, home screen, or an Apple Watch widget.”

“Is find a group that, one, spends money. Two, has a repeating problem. Three, uses photos and videos as inputs. We've seen how important that is. Four, cares about accuracy. And five, had, has bad existing tools. If they check all five boxes, you might be sitt…”

“The apps that do the best are just sort of the simplest apps that you can explain so simply that, you know, just in a few words that you can, very important have one visually heavy element because that's going to be helpful when you're creating organic content…”

“So I believe that building an MCP server in 2026 is in a lot of ways building, like kind of building for mobile in 2010. There's just a lot of opportunities to show up in LLMs in these connections, plugins, or MCP servers.”

“For this, for now, you still need to have a Mac, and you need to have Xcode downloaded, but it can one-shot mobile apps, like full mobile apps.”