People respond to incentives. If people are not building higher-quality apps, then it's because there is not adequate incentive to do so, or because there is not adequate disincentive to not do so.

But I don't have to like it. I don't have to cheer it on. I win nothing, by encouraging them to waste their time churning out more buggy apps, just to show me some concept that I am perfectly capable of imagining in my head or reading off of a diagram or a screenshot in 30 seconds.

We don't need 10 buggy apps that do the same thing. We need 5 developers working on two different apps, that do the same thing, well. Otherwise, we will never get out of Perpetual Prototype Hell.

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100%. Well said.

Some of the best indie solo devs out there produce some of the most amazing long haul ARR products into the millions. Its just a matter of shake-out to find the talent that wins.

Apps are more an "Art" vs "Science". There's no one right way to build anything in software, but there is, like fashion, your high end vs discount bargain basements. Lets aim for the Versace's and Guccis instead of the 10 cent dime store kinds.

😂 #dimestoreapps

There are some real cracks out there, keeping entire enterprise systems afloat alone, and stuff, but I don't think that's who we're talking about here. We're talking more about some calendar widget or Twitter clone, or something, where the login doesn't work and you can't press the "save" button.

The Incentive is not to be trapped by the Commie Marxist shit that is coming down the pipeline. And its coming way faster than is nice for all of us