Chris Raroque

But the important part is just understanding how to break this down in plain English.

That's the important part.

But I'm pretty sure all of the platforms are capable of doing stuff like this.

So that's the animations and interactions.

This is probably the number one thing that makes apps stand out.

And again, if you're going to record demos or concepts, that is what shines in these demos and concepts.

Again, it's the difference between this tweet blowing up and then this one not.

Do you add a little bit more polish?

Is it a little bit more dynamic?

To go on to the next thing that really makes apps stand out, it is, as you mentioned, Greg, illustrations, mascots.

This is something I started doing in my apps because of AI, because I'm able to generate these things.

And we actually talked about it in the other episode that we recorded before.

And I have a whole video on my channel documenting how I build these things.

But right now, what I'm using primarily is ChatGPT.

I've noticed for some reason it's very good at making these kind of illustrations.

And I think with the newest models, with I think ChatGPT 5, once it started with that, it got really good at following instructions for mascots.

But my pro tip...

if you want to make mascots.

Here, for example, is this AI meeting assistant app that I was working on.

It had this mascot that people just absolutely loved named Lily the Ghost.