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building apps<br>shipping apps like the hero of 12 angry men
Wojciech Mandrysz<br>May 28, 2026
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I’m trying to keep up my moral compass. I really am. When all the media bombards me with “how I’m making $100k from my app”, or “$20k MR app building tiktok channel”, I resist. I know what I like and what I value. So should I make crap that statistically work?<br>Should I trust a stochastic machine whose answers are just statistical averages?<br>I won’t.<br>Because, I want to be able to do what I like and enjoy. It’s my free time after all. I don’t enjoy neither building nor going through 20 pages of onboarding with a hard paywall at the end. So why would I do it?<br>I stand up. I have reasonable doubt. I don’t think it’s good.<br>Churn. People churn. You think you are going to get rich by deceiving people to start a trial and convert? Just get access to your half-baked app? Some will pay for it, pay, pay, and pay for months. But when you look at the logs. They are gone.<br>They didn’t open the app for the last 90 days. Show me how many engaged users you have, not what’s your MRR pumped by meta ads.<br>Seems like the whole internet went bananas.<br>Reddit is unrecognizable, most subreddits transformed into endless stream of generated slop.<br>I’m sorry. I’m guilty. I’ve posted on reddit about my apps. It’s just that there LLMs swallow the hook, line and sinker.<br>I believe my app is great, I’ve been making apps for ten years. This one is good. But made straight into the shitstorm of vibe-coded apps. I hope the history tells.<br>In the meantime, let me just add new features, maybe I can somehow manage without marketing.
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