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smeej • today at 12:20 AM • 1 reply • view on HN

I'm looking forward to the making of more software. I think there are probably people who have had really useful software ideas for a long time that they'd never be able to raise money for, but now for $20 a month, they can get up and running, serving their local and/or niche communities, without having to hire a team of engineers.

Eventually we're going to reach a point where they don't have to understand the code themselves. The democratization of software creation is going to be fascinating.


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ThrowawayR2 • today at 1:11 AM

The Android/iOS app store is already flooded with low quality apps. Almost 20,000 games have been released on Steam so far in 2026, that averages to about 70 games per day, every single day. Getting any kind of traction in such a environment is hopeless; every new app might as well be a scream into the void.