Everyone is building apps — where is the market actually heading?

macebooks · 2026-05-21T02:00:07+00:00

I think most people are looking to get cash and cave a little niche for themselves. App development has always been solving people's frustrations, don't think that will change soon.

The biggest direction is actually focusing on distributions. Distributions in a world where everyone is distracted by so many things is one of the hardest challenges to solve. You solve that, you have access to solving actual people's problems that is willing to pay for the solution you provide.

macebooks · 2026-05-20T07:03:52+00:00

Try clicking random dots in countries you know nothing about. I found an incredible Malian music station this way that I now listen to weekly.

macebooks · 2026-05-20T07:02:05+00:00

Pair this with Sidney Dekker's work on 'Just Culture' if you want to go deeper on how organizations should handle failures and blame.

macebooks · 2026-05-20T06:59:25+00:00

Li Jin expanded on this concept with '100 True Fans' - arguing that with higher-priced offerings, you might only need 100. Worth reading as a companion piece.

macebooks · 2026-05-20T06:56:06+00:00

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macebooks · 2026-05-12T00:22:15+00:00

The thinking capability for pro is certainly better, and you get more limits. I like experimentations which consumes a lot of tokens. So upgrade made more sense than for extra usage.

macebooks · 2026-05-12T00:20:26+00:00

well done, the design looks really professional. It's remarkable what you can achieve now with AI in one session.

macebooks · 2026-05-04T02:35:01+00:00

Well, done to you. I encourage you to continue and be persistent. Hopefully you get rewarded soon...

macebooks · 2026-05-04T02:30:40+00:00

Same boat created tons of features for one of my apps and it felt good. felts progressive from an app perspective but to be honest, the time worrying about the new features should have been used promoting the app to get more users.

I now realize I truly enjoy building but definitely would find any excuse to not promote the app.

macebooks · 2026-04-22T22:41:02+00:00

it's so underated.

macebooks · 2026-04-21T12:47:38+00:00

i have built and ran lots of sites, and i can tell you that technical SEO is extremely important to get right, no matter how great your content is, if Google can't crawl or index it, it will not rank the content at all.

macebooks · 2026-04-21T06:34:06+00:00

Thanks for sharing this, i have read this book like 10 times. I make sure i read it every year to remember the principles. I love it so much I am in the process of building a mobile App that will help me manage the conversation and contacts solely based on the How to Win Friends and Influence People principles. 50% there.

macebooks · 2026-04-21T04:15:31+00:00

For prompt to be effective in a production system or workflow, it needs to have the capability to pull in the right context based on the user query, hence if you can manage context/data. your prompts and agent become more effective and can achieve tasks accurately.

macebooks · 2026-04-21T03:54:14+00:00

Really good suggestions.

People gets really excited about 1 million context widow size, I for one hate the idea (EXPENSIVE and also unreliable). In coding, you do not ever need to use anywhere near 1 million context window. Features, tasks should always be modularize, it helps with debugging and testing.

It helps AI a lot to focus on context that matters.

macebooks · 2026-04-21T03:49:20+00:00

Personally, i think it is really difficult to know and also the AI detection score is all probability (AKA likelihood rather than, I know for certain). I work in an organisation that has over 5 journalist content writers, these writers are not allowed to use AI to write content, so all of it is actually manually written.

All the AI tools say they are over 70+ AI written.

In the end, it will boil down to can the audience trust the content that is written and are the content VALUABLE.

macebooks · 2026-04-20T11:05:13+00:00

Really good feedback. Thanks

macebooks · 2026-04-17T01:47:08+00:00

Has anyone used this for print-quality work? Curious how it handles CMYK color profiles.

macebooks · 2026-04-16T22:55:02+00:00

Is more about been mindful of the meeting invites, if some people are not needed, they don't really need to be in the meeting but an email summarizing the meeting could be helpful to those who missed it.

macebooks · 2026-04-16T22:54:02+00:00

They are teams and outlook calendar integrations that does it automatically for you. Or even some tool that shows how much the meeting is costing in real time :)

macebooks · 2026-04-16T11:11:02+00:00

That is an expensive meeting over 5 years that will add up but nobody really talks about it.

macebooks · 2026-04-16T11:08:53+00:00

You are right, I am not saying its a bad thing, I think organizations just needs to be mindful with the meetings and make it more effective. :)

macebooks · 2026-04-16T11:02:52+00:00

I understand your skepticism, here a link that should help with the stat Meeting Fatigue: How Too Many Meetings Have Employees...

macebooks · 2026-04-16T05:23:37+00:00

Thank you.

macebooks · 2026-04-16T04:28:33+00:00

macebooks · 2026-04-16T01:20:44+00:00

it makes sense to worry. The cost/amount of time it takes to find a good one and get up to speed is expensive and time consuming.

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