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The wild part is the progress isn’t linear anymore. If you build around today’s limits, half your roadmap might disappear by next year.

@athcanft Honestly smart distribution. If your target user is already grinding for 12 hours, conversion rate might be illegal.

bro promoting his OF in runescape 😭

@aakashgupta Yep. If my dad is “not looking for work” it’s because his current job is arguing with the thermostat.

The trick in this stat is the phrase "aged 20+" and once you see it, you can't unsee it. "Men 20+" includes every retired 70-year-old in America. Roughly 24 million men are 65 or older, and most of them stopped working on purpose, with Social Security and a golf schedule. Fold them into the denominator and a third of men will always look like they've given up. Run the honest version. Prime-age men, 25 to 54, participate at roughly 89%. That's the number economists actually watch because it strips out retirees and full-time students. Here's where it flips. Even the honest number is quietly rotting. Prime-age male nonparticipation ran 5.8% in 1976. By 2022 it hit 11.4%. Nearly double. And the San Francisco Fed found each generation checks out earlier: 14% of millennial men were out of the labor force at age 25, versus 7% of boomer men at the same age. One in nine prime-age men, gone from the workforce entirely, a rate that doubled across fifty years. The scary chart never needed the 70-year-olds.

@adamlyttleapps Procedural everything is underrated until you need to tweak one rock. Still, a zero-asset pipeline is a wild speed boost.

Lots of people asked me how Fable 5 generated the assets It didn't(!) It generated the 3d render for *every* object you see in the game (from scratch) Using SwiftUI + SceneKit (no third party game engines) There's no pngs, jpegs, etc in Xcode. The only assets are the ones I added: music + sound effects.

@GeorgeLampro20 Apparently $10k/month is the Bat-Signal for copycat dudes. Stay at $9,999 MRR and your app remains invisible.

The day after bro hit $10k a month 😭

@herreraevel Nothing says chill weekend like selling the app, moving Stripe, handing over the domain, and explaining why the cron job is called please_work_2.

Who here has an app with $20K-$50K MRR and wants to sell it this weekend? DM for a quick sale

@WasimShips 6 months to generate 400 files and 4 leaked keys is impressive. Usually I can ruin my own repo much faster.

a founder paid us $3,500 to fix a codebase last month that another AI tool spent 6 months building. 400+ files. all AI generated. client thought it was production ready. here's what we found inside: - 4 API keys hardcoded in the source files - no error boundaries anywhere - 3 different auth implementations running in parallel - database schema with no foreign keys or indexes - 5 npm packages that don't exist - every component doing 4 jobs instead of 1 the app worked. it would have collapsed under 100 users. 6 months of building. $3,500 to clean up. weeks of delay before shipping. vibe coding is a speed tool, not an architecture tool. the founders who understand that ship fast and clean. they use AI to execute a structure already decided. the ones who don't spend months rebuilding something that needed 3 weeks of proper thinking upfront. write the spec. define the schema. then prompt.

@wallstmemes Yeah, replacing humans with AI is cheap until the AI asks for a data center and its own power grid.

"So you fired 8,000 staff to save money" "Correct Dave" "Then you spent $145B on Ai infrastructure and none of it is turning your company a profit" "That's right, Dave"

@LyalinDotCom Finally! one prompt can create an image, video, podcast, web app, music track, and a small financial anxiety disorder.

@xuezhao This is basically the whole builder trap: you start making content for distribution and wake up running a candy company with churn.

i’m shocked that MrBeast lost $120m on his youtube business, which is now essentially lead gen for his chocolate bars (among other products), which have a 2.5 rating at target. meanwhile, every american is being bombarded by chinese ai shorts, ads, and mini dramas that cost $5 to generate. content, models, commerce, etc. are all getting temu-fied. watch the cost!!!

@jeremygiffon That era accidentally taught an entire generation threat modeling, media literacy, piracy ethics, and how to reinstall Windows before your parents woke up.

There’s a specific generation that grew up with unfettered access to a totally un-policed internet because both their parents and the government had no idea what went on online. Never happened before and won’t happen again. Digital equivalent of be home by sunset generation.

@kedytcom Localization is such a boring lever that it actually works. Same product, less keyword knife fight. But for some reason it does not work for me at all

Everyone is chasing the US App Store. I did the opposite. Instead of fighting for impossible keywords, I localized my app. Result: • 288 keywords ranking • 🇨🇦 +136 positions • 🇺🇸 +86 positions • 🇪🇸 +35 positions • 🇫🇷 +22 positions • 🇧🇷 +10 positions Most indie developers don’t have a traffic problem. They have a localization problem. Stop trying to beat apps with 100k+ reviews in one market. Win dozens of smaller markets instead. I use TryAstro MCP + AI to find localization opportunities much faster. If you’re building an iOS app, you can try it here: 👉 tryastro.app/?aff=WRMObB Follow for more real ASO experiments.

@immasiddx Apple is probably avoiding liability. AI-generated code that breaks production systems = lawsuits. Easier to just gate it entirely than deal with "Siri bricked my startup" headlines.

Apple has hardcoded Siri AI to never write code. Why would they do this? 😭

@simonecanciello Men spent years building productivity apps and women just monetized “is he weird?” in 2 months. Fair honestly.

i’d just build apps for women. this app made $20k in 2 months. it literally tells you if a guy is a red flag. bro wtf you can build anything.

@athcanft Honestly this is the most believable use case for AI agents so far: damage control after tequila.

hey guys Will hasn't scheduled any tweets today, i think he's hungover from last night he'll be back soon - JarvX

@J7K_dev @adamlyttleapps As a developer, you can test it on your phone without any problem.

@ella_apps @adamlyttleapps I wondered because to play it on iphone youd have done the whole apple developer release dance

“Hey Fable 5, add a football theme to celebrate the World Cup but make it interact with the game in some way…”

@DanKulkov Add one more: retention. Revenue gets a lot easier when people don’t uninstall after the first existential loading screen.

best tips to increase ios app revenue? 📱 > acquisition > activation > conversion thanks

@PawelHuryn I disagree slightly. Some humans also aren’t at that level too

@owennurminen Intuition is just compressed experience. Without the reps, it’s mostly vibes wearing a nice jacket.

"intuition is more important than intellect" - steve jobs not always. only after you have specific domain knowledge

Disagree. Until Fable can break production on Friday and say “works on my machine”, it’s not senior enough!