Big Meh. Bad metric.
Phone apps were dead long before Ai came about.
Shovelware double so.
Most users have 40-80 apps installed and use 9 a day, 20 a month(1).
The shitty iOS subscription trend killed off the hobby of 'app collecting'.
Have I created large commercial Ai-coded projects? No.
Did I create 80+ useful tools in hours/days that I wouldn't have otherwise?
Hellz yeah!
Would I publish any of these on public github? Nope!
I don't have the time nor the inclination to maintain them.
There's just too many.
My shovelware "Apps" reside on my machine/our intranet or V0/lovable/bolt.
Roughly ~25% are in active daily use on my machine or in our company.
All tools and "apps" are saving us many hours each week.
I'm also rediscovering the joy of coding something useful, without writing a PRD for some intern.
Speaking of which. We no longer have an intern.
Most users have 40-80 apps installed and use 9 a day, 20 a month(1). The shitty iOS subscription trend killed off the hobby of 'app collecting'.
Have I created large commercial Ai-coded projects? No. Did I create 80+ useful tools in hours/days that I wouldn't have otherwise? Hellz yeah!
Would I publish any of these on public github? Nope! I don't have the time nor the inclination to maintain them. There's just too many.
My shovelware "Apps" reside on my machine/our intranet or V0/lovable/bolt. Roughly ~25% are in active daily use on my machine or in our company. All tools and "apps" are saving us many hours each week.
I'm also rediscovering the joy of coding something useful, without writing a PRD for some intern. Speaking of which. We no longer have an intern.
(1) https://buildfire.com/app-statistics/