Esat Turan

Hi Product Hunt community!

I have a genuine question for builders and product managers here about the necessity of native iOS/Android apps for simple utility tools.

Years ago, if you wanted to build a smooth, high-performance tool like a video compressor, photo editor, or drawing board you had no choice but to build a native mobile app. Web apps were simply too slow and lacked access to heavy device processing.

But with WebAssembly (WASM), WebGPU, and modern browser engines, we can compile heavy native libraries and run them directly in the browser at near-native speeds.

I've got a function in one of my projects that's been "temporary" for about 4 months now. It works, it's covered by tests, and it's ugly enough that every time an agent touches that file it asks if I want it cleaned up.

Every time I say yes, I regret it a little. Not because the refactor is bad, usually it's genuinely cleaner, but because now I've burned review time on code that wasn't broken, and there's a small chance the agent introduces a subtle behavior change I won't catch until it's in prod.

I m currently trying to find the first customers for my startup, and I don t yet have the budget to hire a marketing specialist or agency.

AI has become my temporary marketing assistant. I use it to:

• research potential customer segments;

• review and improve outreach messages;

• prepare questions for customer-discovery calls;

• analyze replies and identify patterns;

• turn marketing experiments into clear next steps.

However, I still research each company, personalize the message and send every outreach email myself. The difficult part is finding the right balance between saving time and sounding like another automated sales message.