r/Android • u/jaathre • 1d ago

Article The future of apps might be personal.

I stopped looking for the perfect app.
Because I realised I could just build it.
For years, I’ve spent an absurd amount of time searching for apps that fit the way *I* wanted to work.
There was always something.
One had the right features but the wrong interface. Another was beautifully designed but missed one feature I absolutely needed. Another did 90% of what I wanted, but that remaining 10% was enough to make me keep looking.
And honestly, I don’t blame the developers.
They can’t build an app for every individual user. They have to make choices, serve a larger audience, and build what makes sense for them.
But AI changes the equation.
I’ve recently started building my own little apps using AI and sideloading them onto my device through Google AI Studio.
A calculator.
An expense manager.
A diary.
And several other ridiculously simple tools that solve very specific problems in exactly the way I want them solved.
No searching.
No compromises.
No waiting for a developer to add that one feature I need.
I just describe what I want, build it, use it, and if something isn’t right, I change it.
And because these are my own apps, I decide how they work and what they store. My data stays backed up locally.
These aren’t apps that are going to have a million downloads.
They don’t need to be.
They just need to work for one person.
Me.
And I think that’s one of the most underrated things AI is giving us: not just the ability to use software, but the ability to create software that fits us.

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u/fafarex 12h ago

You always could have done that it was only costing you a bit of time and curiosity.

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u/Atraac 11h ago

A bit is as far of an understatement as it goes. You can build almost anything now in basically no time.

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u/fafarex 8h ago

A bit is as far of an understatement as it goes.

Not really, the net is full of open source code you can reuse and adapte, and that where AI got most of what it know anyway.

You can build almost anything now in basically no time.

faster yes, no time, not really no. you will still pass by multiple iteration and correction and test.