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@zuess05 That's why the high quality apps that are built and marketed properly are the ones that are going to stand out, now more than ever

Vibe coding is just a dopamine addiction disguised as a business model. You type a prompt. You get a full app. You feel like a god for 10 minutes. Then you remember you are terrified of marketing. So you just open a new tab and build another app instead. The internet is about to become a massive graveyard of 24-hour side projects.

Most mobile app budgets fall apart because founders never mapped out how every early decision shapes the ones that come after it. The features you choose determine the team you need, the team determines the timeline, and the timeline determines how much of your budget disappears before you ever ship.

@KaiXCreator Supabse has become hard to argue against. We use it ourselves and it saves us a lot of time

Which database are you using for your product? -Supabase -Postgres -Firebase -MongoDB I personally use Supabase for my project

@aribk24 This is exactly why App Store guidelines have to be taken seriously. Try to find a way around them and they'll make an example out of you, no matter how big you are

didn’t think Cal AI would get taken off appstore cause of this tweet

Already using both daily, love to see them getting better :)

@md_kasif_uddin We work with Flutter and React Native and we can't recommend them enough, but honestly you can't go wrong with any of the four.

Which one is best for App development?

@kodjima33 A very unique product, props on the launch! have you ran into any issues so far?

Spent 4 months and built Omi for Desktop, your life architect It sees your screen, hears your conversations and tells you what to do next It’s like having a second brain that actually pays attention Open source, local, link below

@StockSavvyShay Judging from the rest of Anthropic's track record, Figma and Adobe have every right to feel pressure

Anthropic is reportedly preparing to launch Claude Opus 4.7 and a new AI design tool as soon as this week. The tool is said to create presentations, websites, landing pages and products from natural language prompts which helps explain the pressure on $FIG and $ADBE today.

@hthieblot Builders

pitch me your company in 1 word.

Google removed over 1.1 million apps from the Play Store in a single quarter last year because they were outdated and abandoned. The majority of these apps that disappeared were not bad products, they just stopped getting attention after launch and never recovered from it

@marclou Built something you needed yourself, congrats! (nice touch on the shrimp mechanic as well)

I made an app to fix my terrible posture. It uses my MacBook Pro camera to watch me work. When AI detects that I’m sitting like a shrimp 🦐, it sends me a notification with a preview of my posture so I can reposition myself. Everything stays local. It works offline too. > supershrimp.io And because apparently my brain only responds to fake rewards, I added XP: good posture makes my shrimp evolve (currently level 7).

@asaio87 Well you can.. It just won't be near as good as if it was vibecoded by a developer

Uncomfortable truth: you cannot vibecode an app unless you are a developer yourself.

@ethancarter934 There is a way and it's something we think about at all times at Calda. Replacing the people who built the foundation makes no sense. we'd rather teach them to use it to their advantage and work faster than start over with someone new

@The_Calda yikes, that's a tough situation. wonder if there's a way to upskill ppl for new AI roles instead of layoffs. keeping the team and evolving sounds ideal tbh

‼️100,000+ tech layoffs in 2025 and researchers are now saying no market force can naturally stop it. For the founders and CEOs reading this, how is your company integrating AI without laying off the team that got you here?

@david_attisaas It was easy to see the spike in submissions coming once vibe coding went so heavily mainstream. The real story is that Apple raising the floor is actually good news for anyone building something serious, less noise means your app has a real chance of being seen.

the app store processed 235,800 new app submissions in q1 2026. that's an 84% jump year-over-year that happened in a single quarter. vibe coding tools made building an app accessible to anyone with a prompt and a free afternoon, and the volume didn't just rise, it broke the queue. apple couldn't absorb that with headcount alone. so last week they confirmed it: ai tools are now part of the review process. not replacing human reviewers, but assisting them, helping triage, flag patterns, and surface guideline violations faster. they're still hitting 90% of submissions reviewed within 48 hours, processing 200,000+ apps a week, with an average review time of 1.5 days. (according to apple) this isn't just an operational story. it's a trust and enforcement story. ai-assisted review means pattern recognition at scale. the low-effort apps, the misleading ai feature disclosures, the thin clones that barely cleared the bar before, they're easier to catch now. apple has already pulled tons of famous viral apps for guideline violations in recent weeks. dark patterns app makers... beware !! that's enforcement finally keeping pace with volume. for serious app makers, this is honestly good news. more consistent review means more predictable outcomes. in a store flooded with ai-generated experiments, quality and clarity are a real edge now, not just hygiene. the practical move this week: audit your listing like a reviewer would see it. does your description say exactly what your app does? are your ai features disclosed clearly? do your first 3 screenshots communicate outcome in plain language? the reviewers haven't changed their standards. they've just gotten much faster backup though.

@seraleev Apple automating app review is the right move but it's clearly not ready yet. Let's just hope they get to the point where trusted accounts get through without the complications, Google Play has been doing that for a while now.

While you were sleeping, Apple pulled off a quiet revolution. They silently rolled out automated app review, their answer to the surge of apps driven by the vibe coding trend. Auto-review is the first stage of the review process. Right now it’s rough. The system flags any SDK that collects attribution data as a signal that your app contains ads. Developers are getting hit with auto-rejections left and right. It also automatically detects Firebase anonymous auth as a sign that your app has a login flow and asks you to provide a demo video. The fix is simple though. Just add a note in App Review Information clarifying that your app has no ads and no login feature. Hopefully Apple ships a fix soon and we end up with fast automated reviews for trusted accounts, similar to how Google Play already handles it.

@NathanGeckler Congrats, we'll try them out! How are the apps holding up with real users so far?

i’m 19 years old my third app is now live on the app store zero lines of code written built 100% with Anything vibe coding keeps delivering

We have been building with FlutterFlow for years and this is honestly one of the coolest things they have done. If you work with FlutterFlow and are based in the US, do not sleep on this.

@Prathkum The thinking that happened before you even sat down to code has always been the real job. What AI has done is just made that more obvious by taking care of the rest

Coding is a task: now out-sourced to AI Developing is a mindset: still your job

@ujjwalscript We agree, vibe coding might get you to a demo but users are going to break things that the AI didn't see coming. And when that happens someone still needs to go and fix it

The “Vibe Coding” honeymoon is officially OVER. For a while, it felt magical. Prompt in, product out. No deep context, no architecture, no trade-offs. Just vibes. But reality is catching up: • Systems still need to scale
• Edge cases still exist
• Debugging still hurts
• And someone still has to own the code AI didn’t replace engineering, it amplified the gap between people who understand systems and people who don’t. “Vibe coding” is great for getting started.
But shipping real, reliable software? That still requires thinking. The engineers who win won’t be the ones who vibe the fastest - they’ll be the ones who understand what the vibe produced.