What is your POV on scaling apps/games using AI. A single or small team would still need marketing funding to scale the product. Yes there are options such as debt financing options, however the Financing companies need a large enough scale ($50k-$100k) in marketing spend before they are interested.
AI is solving many of the UA challenges for small studios or teams, which is I believe some of the SAAS companies will find it hard to compete or simply die, because you can ask an LLM to do the analysis, and pay slightly more.
I would ask what is the hurry to scale with external capital? The scene of bootstrapped developers is growing and getting to those numbers to attract alternative financing is about different smarts than the traditional raise-to-do-UA route.
I think it's again about optionality, what kind of company do you want? Do you want to build to become massive quickly? Then VC is the route, always. But there are so many other options now available, because of AI.
This made me think where is all the app building future heading? In a few decades, or less, will we need dedicated apps installed on your devices? Just bring up an AI prompt (or what form it will have then) ask it to make you as a user a custom app for your custom need on the spot. You wait seconds or minutes and there it is. So my guess is that we are all converging to one app building tool in everyones pockets that will build dedicated solutions to unique individuals needs.
If this will be the case, what will be the point of having app startups in 20 years?
We forbid AI usage at our studio / tech company. Ai doesn't bring about innovation, and those who program know it makes way more work than having just programmed it in a different way. The value prop isn't the with AI. It can only do what it's trained off, it will not make anything someone else hasn't made already. This is fact, and if you want to dispute this, I feel you should talk with our CTO. You can't even copyright anything Ai has made, so I see zero value in it.
What is your POV on scaling apps/games using AI. A single or small team would still need marketing funding to scale the product. Yes there are options such as debt financing options, however the Financing companies need a large enough scale ($50k-$100k) in marketing spend before they are interested.
AI is solving many of the UA challenges for small studios or teams, which is I believe some of the SAAS companies will find it hard to compete or simply die, because you can ask an LLM to do the analysis, and pay slightly more.
I would ask what is the hurry to scale with external capital? The scene of bootstrapped developers is growing and getting to those numbers to attract alternative financing is about different smarts than the traditional raise-to-do-UA route.
I think it's again about optionality, what kind of company do you want? Do you want to build to become massive quickly? Then VC is the route, always. But there are so many other options now available, because of AI.
This made me think where is all the app building future heading? In a few decades, or less, will we need dedicated apps installed on your devices? Just bring up an AI prompt (or what form it will have then) ask it to make you as a user a custom app for your custom need on the spot. You wait seconds or minutes and there it is. So my guess is that we are all converging to one app building tool in everyones pockets that will build dedicated solutions to unique individuals needs.
If this will be the case, what will be the point of having app startups in 20 years?
We forbid AI usage at our studio / tech company. Ai doesn't bring about innovation, and those who program know it makes way more work than having just programmed it in a different way. The value prop isn't the with AI. It can only do what it's trained off, it will not make anything someone else hasn't made already. This is fact, and if you want to dispute this, I feel you should talk with our CTO. You can't even copyright anything Ai has made, so I see zero value in it.