that could be a potential exit...something to dream about i guess. but lets not get ahead of ourselves. this was simply an experiment to see if i could really build a useful app. built - check! useful - TBD.
I think this is a brilliant idea. Not sure if the feature set is large enough for me to buy it quite yet. I'm probably not the target market for this app, though.
What do you mean by it would have to be passive? It would come up with a new app everyday but you would still have to indicate if you liked the app or not.
Actually I can't believe there aren't already a billion apps doing this - you could make a fucking fortune selling access to your app, compared with the ever growing data on what kinds of apps do well.
I think the power of this is potentially not the apps I'll write for myself, but the apps other people write. Without knowing anything about it, this might potentially allow people to do the 100 things that would be nice, but didn't quite provide enough value to justify building the underlying infrastructure.
I think you can compare it to going back to 1993, and wanting to build Yelp, but having to invent, and sell the phone to go along with it.
In all seriousness, you’re absolutely right. I can name 10+ apps, it is not a new idea.
But I have found existing apps have been abandoned, lack data or a system to keep data accurate over time. That’s partly my motivation for doing this today.
And people seem to value it already! I had gotten a ton of positive feedback.
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