Unlocking the Power of Micro Apps

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What is the rise of micro apps and why are they important?

Unknown 0:00

Thank you. Welcome to the podcast. Today, Jamie and I have recently seen a really interesting article over on TechCrunch. It's called The Rise of Micro Apps. How non-developers are writing apps instead of buying them. This is something that Jamie and I have both been doing over the last week. So we're like, we have to create a podcast about this. And I also think for anyone listening, this is 100% what you should be doing in like two situations. It's so cheap to do. It works so well. If there is an app or service that you use, a software, and it doesn't have all the features you want, I literally, I'm kind of the worst because I've been in software for the last 10 years and I'm used to building things.

How can non-developers create their own apps?

Unknown 0:35

So if there is like a feature I want, I will go find the CEO of the company or the CTO. I'll find the personal email and be like, hey, could you please add this list of features that do these things? And I get responses. You'd be surprised by the responses. Typically what the response is though is, this sounds awesome. We'll put this on the roadmap. Next quarter, I think we'll be focusing on this. We have this other big initiative we're doing right now. And I totally understand that. But what you can also do is go to Base44 or Lovable or Emergent and in probably one day, build the functionality that you need with that thing for a couple hundred bucks. So you're going to spend a couple hundred bucks. You could fully build an app that has all the features.

What are the benefits of building micro apps instead of waiting for features?

Unknown 1:15

So anyways, today on the podcast, we're going to be talking about that. I'm going to give you an example of someone that I've used for that. But before we do, we're going to make a plug for our school community on where we teach you how to do this. So Jamie, tell them about it.

Jamie 1:27

Yeah, so we traditionally on our school committee, AI Hustle, we'll teach you different ways to make money using AI, how to grow your business, do marketing and content creation, things like that. We are starting a new series over there specifically on vibe coding, how to build apps and websites. that rank in AI search, that are standalone companies. I mean, you can do so much with value coding. We believe it's the future. It's where we think the most dollars and money and attention are going to go with AI in the future. And we think that there's a huge opportunity right now for you to make money. So our community is over 300 people strong. It's $19 a month. You can lock that price in today as it will go up in the future.

Jamie 2:08

And we release bonus content over there each week. We have over 60, 65 videos right now. But moving forward, we're going to focus on this vibe coding concept. So if that interests you, you should definitely go check it out. Let's talk about, yeah, this idea of a micro app because basically what Jaden said, someone else did, someone named Rebecca Yu. It took her seven days to vibe code her own dining app. So... Sounds like she had her own restaurant. Yeah. And she wanted to make an app. And instead of paying someone, she just instead of paying someone to make it for her or to pay for an expensive service, she just made one herself by vibe coding. So it's called where to eat. So it looks like it's maybe like a marketing tool for her business or something.

Jamie 2:56

So, Jane, what do you think about all this?

Unknown 2:59

So I think that this is really interesting. And I also worry that people are going to start doing this the wrong way.

What tools can help non-developers build apps easily?

Unknown 3:05

If you're not a developer, so the most famous vibe coding tool out there is called Cloud Code. It's what I've used at AI Box, my startup for the last year. My CTO is, you know, he crushes it. I mean, it's basically like a code portal that gets into our code base and you can make changes and it builds all the stuff. It's amazing. It's like 10xing any engineer. You hear about it a lot on Twitter or X. And what I worry is that people that are not coders will try to go straight to using cloud code and become very frustrated because it still has to like work through a terminal and it's like it's still for developers what I would recommend if you are not a developer is using emergent base 44 or lovable personally I'm using lovable and the reason why I would recommend using one of these platforms specifically lovable right now is really amazing because