Comment by greggsy
3 years ago
This is really cool, and refreshingly simple in the current landscape of generative tooling.
I’m interested to hear your thoughts about the inevitable monetisation that will occur once someone wraps this into a horrible app with ads?
Maybe someone else can answer the related question of how the respective app stores deal with attribution-based code licenses?
Yeah, I think that'll happen. I think it's already happening. And if someone wraps it in a terrible app with ads, makes millions of dollars, and I never see any of the money, yes I'll be very sad. But I'm trying to take a bigger perspective here. There's a lot of experience and tools that could be built off this, and I can't possibly build them all.
And if I hid the code away so only I could use it, there's a good chance no one would ever create any of those experiences. Creating a successful app requires mobile UI people, devops, designers, marketing/SEO, monetization, etc. I don't want to do ANY of that... in the land of app creation, I'm more of a Tom Bombadil-type.
This is also my first project out of graduate school. I feel like I'll probably have other ideas down the road, and maybe I'll try to monetize those ones with what I've learned from this adventure.