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Chris Raroque

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
978 total appearances

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Podcast Appearances

The Startup Ideas Podcast
Build Mobile Apps that Stand Out (Here's the Playbook)

You can kind of tell that they're AI-generated, they're vibe-coded.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
Build Mobile Apps that Stand Out (Here's the Playbook)

Just like you can tell when an image is an AI image or a video, consumers and users are also starting to spot when something was just a 24-hour vibe-coded app.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
Build Mobile Apps that Stand Out (Here's the Playbook)

One of the things that you can see that an app is probably vibe coded is it's very static.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
Build Mobile Apps that Stand Out (Here's the Playbook)

It doesn't usually have a lot of life to it.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
Build Mobile Apps that Stand Out (Here's the Playbook)

A way to combat that is by having more animations and interactions.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
Build Mobile Apps that Stand Out (Here's the Playbook)

I'll show you an example of what I mean by that.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
Build Mobile Apps that Stand Out (Here's the Playbook)

So this is my calorie tracking app, Amy.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
Build Mobile Apps that Stand Out (Here's the Playbook)

And the way it works is it's kind of like Apple Notes, where you just type what you ate, just like you would in Apple Notes.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
Build Mobile Apps that Stand Out (Here's the Playbook)

And then on the right, an AI is actually going to search and try to calculate the calories for you.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
Build Mobile Apps that Stand Out (Here's the Playbook)

Again, this is a very interesting take on calorie tracking, but when I tweeted out this concept video, it absolutely blew up.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
Build Mobile Apps that Stand Out (Here's the Playbook)

There were so many incredible designers who were praising it.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
Build Mobile Apps that Stand Out (Here's the Playbook)

I think about 800 people joined a waitlist that I put up just from a single tweet.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
Build Mobile Apps that Stand Out (Here's the Playbook)

That was after 20 hours.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
Build Mobile Apps that Stand Out (Here's the Playbook)

I just forgot to put the waitlist up, put the link for the waitlist.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
Build Mobile Apps that Stand Out (Here's the Playbook)

Even just at the tail end of that tweet, 800 people joined the waitlist.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
Build Mobile Apps that Stand Out (Here's the Playbook)

which again is kind of crazy for a calorie tracking app because there are so many calorie tracking apps.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
Build Mobile Apps that Stand Out (Here's the Playbook)

It's like the stereotypical AI app to build right now.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
Build Mobile Apps that Stand Out (Here's the Playbook)

But this one did stand out and I think it was, again, because it was a bit of a novel concept, this pattern of Apple Notes meets calorie tracking, but also it's the animations and just the feel.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
Build Mobile Apps that Stand Out (Here's the Playbook)

When people saw this, it really did stand out to them.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
Build Mobile Apps that Stand Out (Here's the Playbook)

Now, I want to show you a concept that I tweeted the day before of the exact same app.