Re:Things we learned about LLMs in 2024
by PurestGuava on Wednesday January 01, 2025 @09:02AM
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> (In my experience as an app developer, getting any traction and/or money from your app can be much more difficult than actually building it.)
This. The app I built has maybe 50 downloads despite me trying quite hard to promote it. It's very difficult work, even with the app being completely free of charge (save for a donation button).
Those are just my silly personal projects, not businesses. The business I mentioned above is in the recruiting agency space, B2B SaaS. The app itself is not the thing being purchased per se, the point was it was built using LLMs.
$10K MRR isn't much; we're still validating PMF. We're carefully selecting paid customers at this point, not open for wide release, hence my vagueness. Just wanted to illustrate that building robust apps that have value are possible today.
(In my experience as an app developer, getting any traction and/or money from your app can be much more difficult than actually building it.)