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ben_wyesterday at 10:34 PM0 repliesview on HN

> One of other authors he links to[0] brags that he's released 10 projects in the past month, like "Super Xtreme Mapper, a high-end, professional MIDI mapping software for professional DJs", which has 4 stars on Github. Despite the "high-end, professional...for professional" description, literally no one is going to use it, because this guy can't [be trusted to] maintain this software. Even if Claude Code is doing all the work, adding all the features, and fixing all the bugs, someone has to issue the command to do that work, and to foot the bill. This guy is just spraying code around and snorting digital coke.

While I'd expect almost nobody to use apps meeting this description, I disagree about why:

It's not that other people have to foot the bill, it's that the bill is so low that it's a question of this particular app being discovered amongst all the others.

$15/month is a rounding error on most budgets. If every musician buys a Claude subscription and prompts for their own variations on this idea, there's a few million other apps that also do all that this app does, which vary from completely identical (because the prompts themselves were also) to utterly personalised for the particular preferences of exactly one artist.