To be clear, the culture that's producing this app is people trying every permutation possible for app ideas, throwing them out with cliche landing pages, and marketing them on channels like this or Reddit or Product Hunt.
I think there is a 0% chance that the creator is actually a partier who needed this and so he built it.
The cultures that try and experiment with different ideas?
Rather than spending 18 months building and 'perfecting' and idea in private then releasing it to real people, doesn't it seem more efficient to Throw 10 ideas/'micro mvps' at the wall and see what sticks? Seems fairly solid to me.
Ugh. "Throw feces at the wall and see if it sticks" is the culture that gave us post-a-day blog spam instead of sporadic thoughtful writing, and github spammers pushing out whatever half-done garbage they typed in on a manic Saturday to be abandoned by Monday.
As the saying goes, "there's a reason you have two ears but only one mouth."
I still need to determine whether it's worth reading. Private diaries/libraries are still useful, both for the writing and for the lack of publication.
They're satisfied with creating apps for problems no one is really experiencing en masse. I mean it's neat that they're building these things, but I'm driven by problems I encounter that can be solved by software or education. We're just very different yet similar people.
Or you could identify an activity or perceived problem space and spend a week or two doing real user research and be able to come up with 3 ideas that would kick the crap out of each of those 'micro mvps' because you'd be starting from real user needs. Also, if you were solving a real problem for yourself, that'd be halfway to it as well but never under-estimate the value of a little bit of user research.
I can see where you're coming from, but I don't know if that's a fair reduction.
In the app world we initially thought more everything was better. When apps that took things away (twitter took away characters, snap chat took away permanence) showed up, we realized that sometimes less creates a better social situation.
I love the sentimental value of photography but dislike it's massively redistributable nature. Consider for example this app for... sexual pictures taken with a lover.
I think there is a 0% chance that the creator is actually a partier who needed this and so he built it.