... panic. Their existing online shop, built on a heavy database-driven content management system, was taking over six seconds to load on mobile devices. In the medical supply niche, customers are often in a hurry. They need to order bandages, digital thermometers, or diagnostic kits quickly, and they do not want to wait for heavy scripts to load. The slow load times were hurting their conversion rates, and their bounce rate was climbing past sixty percent. After checking their server ...

... with web-only distribution (no MS approval needed) while building trust signals - Use a publisher or established partner who already has store access - Build an audience first (social media, PH launch, etc.) so Microsoft sees you as legitimate - Consider alternative stores or sideloading options The bigger question: As more people use AI to build apps, will platform gatekeepers become even stricter? This feels like the beginning of a new kind of "app inequality" where having a verified developer account becomes ... ... part that itches. Not the three weeks, but that your competence suddenly buys you nothing. The longest I have been stuck was never on a hard problem, it was always a dependency on someone who had no reason to hurry

... thought we knew We assumed enterprise customers wanted the same things as our small business users, just more of it. More security. More control. More features. We never talked to them. We read blog posts. We looked at competitor pricing pages. We guessed. Here's what we missed: Procurement cycles. Enterprise deals take 6-12 months. We had 30-day sales cycles. We weren't built for that. Security reviews. We needed SOC2. We didn't have it. Customers asked ... ... advin_jadis  Thanks. The ego line was the hardest to write. But it's true. We thought we knew better. We didn't. Comment from Imed Radhouani(@imed_radhouani): @absheikh  Thanks for this!! The "customer you want vs

... genuinely happier as a developer. I have more freedom than he does in a lot of ways, and none of the headaches that come with running the show. That could change, but right now I'm not in a hurry to trade places. Comment from Nika(@busmark_w_nika): @tereza_hurtova  When did you start building and with the whole process? Comment from Tanja Peters(@kyomobileapp): @ayeshabuilds  Your line Trust is the currency 100% agree. In my case ...

... Last month, I did something that felt slightly insane. I took our product description, fed it into ChatGPT, and asked it to build a competitor. Not a parody. A real competitor

... expenses 10-15 years ago. And now we use at home app for tracking babies. When they slept, how much they eat, what was the output ;) . What we usually forget is to write things down. You are in a hurry, somebody is waiting, something is more important, and a few hours later, you try to remember what was the thing that you wanted to add to the tracker. And at some point, you lose your patience. ;) If you can think ...

... useful. Comment from Navanita Devi(@navanita_devi): Dedy's point is interesting, the opacity problem is real. Most people conflate "AI having access" with "AI having unchecked control." They're very different things. Read-only access vs write access, logged actions vs

... guardrails, shared fleets deteriorate quickly. Observations on UX Decisions A few design patterns stand out: Minimal screens Large touch targets Quick transitions Low cognitive load This makes sense. People using bike-sharing apps are: Walking Holding bags In a hurry Outdoors They aren t sitting at desks. This Idea Usher review notes that many mobility apps forget this context. GURARIDE seems built with it in mind. Where the Product Fits Best Based on the current structure, GURARIDE appears ideal ...

... Spotlight quick actions Control Center integration Action Button mapping (iPhone 15/16) Full customizable Android widgets Siri support (when she cooperates) Pro Tip Set up widgets for your most-used Supertags first. The ones where you're usually in a hurry (tasks, meeting notes, ideas). You'll feel the difference immediately. What widgets are you setting up first? Drop your ideas below, I'm stealing the best ones! P.S. If you build a wild Shortcuts automation with this, please share ...

... Vision Pro and other edge computing devices. As long as we need hardware to interact with AI and right now, every AI interaction is through hardware Apple has a massive advantage. The real danger signal would be if a competitor starts to significantly outsell the iPhone, and that clearly hasn't happened yet. We're still in the very early days of the AI era. It's normal for software and apps to go viral first because they're easy ... ... fear for Apple, if any, is that the iteration speed of AI is much faster than anyone can imagine. Does Apple have the next two years of waiting time like they did before? Maybe not, if they don't hurry

... Comment from Kaustubh Katdare(@thebigk): If they create a $2000/month plan; the VC system will fund a new model that offers $20/mo pricing plan and is closer to what OpenAI offers. But I doubt these companies are in any hurry to make money. They've infinite money supply because AI is the biggest revolution of our times after computers. I believe AI will become freely available or super cheap. Comment from Kaustubh Katdare(@thebigk): @byalexai  I have been observing ...

... launching on PH this week, so full circle. Wouldn't call it "money from that first version" though, that one barely resembled what exists now. Curious how many other people here started completely outside software like I did vs. devs who just found a faster way to ship side projects. Comment from Landon Reid(@galax): My teenage son built a full SaaS on Bolt with Claude. A property zoning tool. Hardest part was the data layer, not the code. Every ... ... money. Vibe coding eliminated the boilerplate, not the thinking. Comment from fzero17(@fzero17): My first vibecoded project was OpenFolder a macOS menu bar app that turns your desktop into a calm personal launchpad. I built it using GitHub Copilot + VS

... plenty of white spaces to avoid the clutter, some bold for highlighting some parts. if youre using chatGPT to craft the comment, i would suggest not to copy everything from chatGPT (which i did in above response in a hurry ) as some of the formatting are lost I guess. Comment from Rahul Rajagopal(@rahuuzz): @martyd i dont feel its easy to read through big paragraphs. i feel it could be modified to make it straight forward, easy to read ...

... mass spam'... It s the easiest way to get in front of people who get flooded with emails. Especially when it's timely. And the #1 cardinal rule of SMS marketing: Don t spam. Instead of Sale ends tonight, hurry! Try Your favorite hoodie is back in stock. Tap to see new colors! Instead of blasting Buy Now texts, think: Send a 1 liner insight Drop a curious angle about their abandoned carts Offer a quick test: Reply ...