Maybe I've reached a unique and terrifying level of terminally online goblinhood, but I wonder if part of the issue is also that people are already using basically 100% of the apps they care to use. Like, I don't think there's much in terms of entertainment, productivity, social engagement, or whatever that can be replaced or augmented by new apps, so depending on how we're measuring total usage we shouldn't expect to see dramatic increases just because there are more apps. This doesn't change the fact that vibe coding isn't actually making things people want to use, and in fact I would say that this dramatically increases the chance that any slopware that does do something legitimately useful is going to quickly find itself competing with more well-designed and well-constructed versions of itself that was created by an actual mind.
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The only reasons I see for using new apps is because the older ones got an 'update' where they made the ui worse and dropped some features and reliability.
you're talking like you don't want another fifty match-3 games
I partly vibe-coded what I thought would be a super useful homepage website ( mediaplate.au ), with weather, notepad, to do list, unit conversion, visitor info (up address etc) stopwatch, timer, etc. All widgets adjustable and tabs renamable. it also has a search function where you can quickly search using any of the big engines and exclude AI summaries from the result. Made it for myself, to improve my own productivity. Set it as the default "new tab" page in Firefox.
I don't even use it myself lol. It was my idea, my design, to fit my (perceived) needs, and now it's basically abandonware. I'm not surprised that most other churned out vibe coded apps are solutions looking for a problem.
It's not your fault. The problem is not creating something, but letting people know it exists and is useful for them. Unless you are a big tech company who can advertise it at their own homepage, their services or with unlimited budget inside their own ad network, you have a hard time getting users to see your thing. Reddit, YouTube and each social media is pay to win now, unless some big influencer mentions you or finds your think by accident.
Just wait, when the AI agents are going to use those apps they will go to the moon!
Let the clankers play them! Then apps no one created are played by no one and distract the clankers from doing anything harmful.
If no one uses them, are they really missing?