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Comment by joohwan

4 hours ago

What stood out to me more than this particular project is the visible acceleration of a phenomenon many of us could foresee, especially over the last year or so: people can build a version of the same idea faster than ever.

After like 10 minutes of searching I found multiple similar swift projects (most of them are just a couple of weeks or months old):

https://github.com/tdeverx/contained-app https://github.com/nico81/iContainer https://github.com/wouterdebie/davit https://github.com/Augani/dory https://github.com/tofa84/berth https://github.com/erdaltoprak/ContainerUtility https://github.com/andrew-waters/orchard

There were more if you include ones with fewer GitHub stars, CLI-only, non-Swift etc. but you get the idea.

People will increasingly be able to build their own version of the software they want. As that happens the value of someone else's decreases. The era of hyper-personal software is coming.

Would you say these are all of equivalent, top notch, quality? I can't say I know that for certain.

Used to be you could use website polish and a few other surface level things to gauge the amount of effort that went into these types of things. Now that is easily finished LLMs. In a similar way, one of the biggest impacts of kick-starter now that the smoke has cleared is the aggressive evolution and refinement of the 3 minute pitch video.

Whether that actually translates into well thought through implementations and road-maps, and real momentum, I can't say.

Not on iOS unless you also pay annual membership to put it on the AppStore OR rebuild & reinstall the personal-account build every 30 or so days.