News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

jonathanhar

jonathanhar on Hacker News

Last month 10k apps were built on our platform – here's what we learned

Posted by jonathanhar on Wednesday April 30, 2025 @09:54AM
from the self-post dept.

Hey all, Jonathan here, cofounder of Fine.devOver the last month alone, we've seen more than 10,000 apps built on our product, an AI-powered app creation platform. That gave us a pretty unique vantage point to understand how people actually use AI to build software. We thought we had it pretty much figured out, but what we learned changed our thinking completely.Here are the three biggest...

( Read More... | 2 comments | 4 points | on HN )
Re:The Disposable Software Era on Monday April 21, 2025 @11:01AM (#43752741)
I'm experimenting with a concept I call "disposable software": apps that are built instantly, serve a short-term purpose, and disappear.

Think: group trip planner, one-off microsite, weekend chore tracker.

I wrote about why I think this is inevitable (like disposable media), how AI is making it happen, and what this could mean for creativity and computing.

Curious to hear what HN folks think: Is there room in the stack for throwaway apps?

Re:FastAPI made faster with AI agents on Tuesday August 15, 2023 @08:19AM (#37133052)
Sharing something cool I got to work on in my company.
Re:Get started quickly on Kaggle with AI agents on Thursday August 10, 2023 @08:33AM (#37075389)
Sharing a nice project I worked on as part of my job. If you come from a data science background I think this will speak to you.