@FinanceYF5: This year, the number of million-dollar apps built by a single person will surpass the entire history of the App Store. Someone used AI to create a guitar-themed Fruit Ninja—strum the right chords to slice fruit. Weird, niche, fun. The kind of app you'd immediately send to a friend. With AI, you can now build it in a day.
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AI lowers the barrier for individual developers to create novel apps, exemplified by a guitar-themed Fruit Ninja clone built in a day.
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This year, the number of million-dollar apps made by a single person will surpass the entire history of the App Store.
Someone used AI to create a guitar version of Fruit Ninja — strum the right chord to slice fruit.
Weird, niche, fun.
The kind of app you’d immediately send to a friend.
Now you can make one in a day with AI. https://t.co/Eb1zApsxvm
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